PHIL120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Nelson Goodman, Venn Diagram, Axel Rudi Pell

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Philosophy at St Joseph's College
• Course: PHIL120
• Professor: Katalin Bimbo

Document Summary

Let"s revisit the island of knights and knaves. Abercrombie knew that the island had a chief and was curious to find him. He narrowed it down to two brothers, og and bog. He knew one of them was the chief, but was not sure which one it was until they said: Og: bog is the chief, and he is a knave. Bog og is not the chief, but he is a knight. ), so we know that we will have eight different possibilities (2 3 = 8). In this case o = og, b = Bog, ch = chief, p = og"s claim, t = true, f = false, and con stands for consistency, with 1 = consistent and. Using the table we can conclude that og is the chief, and both brothers are knaves. Now let"s look at what"s known as the nelson goodman principle .