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Henry Nelson Goodman (/ˈɡʊdmən/; 7 August 1906 – 25 November 1998) was an American philosopher known for his work on counterfactuals mereology the problem of induction irrealism and aesthetics.

birth date
1906-08-07
birth place
Somerville Massachusetts
death date
1998-11-25
death place
Needham Massachusetts
era
20th-century philosophy
influenced
Noam Chomsky, Jerry Fodor, Stanley Cavell, Kendall Walton, Israel Scheffler, Willard Van Orman Quine, Hilary Putnam
influenced by
David Hume, Immanuel Kant, Rudolf Carnap, Willard Van Orman Quine, Carl Gustav Hempel
main interest
Aesthetics, Inductive reasoning, Philosophy of language, Counterfactual conditional, Philosophy of science, Mereology, Logic
notableIdea
New riddle of induction
philosophicalSchool
Analytic philosophy

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