PHILOS 122 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Natural Kind
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Goodmanized predicates: concept of causation, if you can see a causal connection then you see the causal property and have the concept. The copper conducts is lawlike, then any man in this room has 3 children is not (74) a. i. 1. Only a statement that is lawlike is capable of receiving confirmation from an instance of it. We need a way to distinguish between lawlike and accidental statements (74: our looking at something doesn"t have an effect on it (causal relation). Need c. idea of causality to think of the world. There have to be general laws of nature to explain how things behave, have powers. (lec 14) It is not the case that when we observe a positive correlation between any two kinds a and b we make an inference (lec 13) c. i.
