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((Short description|Book by Nelson Goodman))
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| caption    = First edition
| author           = [[Nelson Goodman]]
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| language         = English
| subject          = [[Inductive reasoning|Induction]] and [[Counterfactual conditional|conditionals]]; [[New riddle of induction|New Riddle of Induction]]
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'''''Fact, Fiction, and Forecast''''' (1955) is a book by [[Nelson Goodman]] in which he explores some problems regarding [[scientific law]] and [[counterfactual conditionals]] and presents his [[New riddle of induction|New Riddle of Induction]].  [[Hilary Putnam]] described the book as "one of the few books that every serious student of philosophy in our time ''has'' to have read."<ref>Goodman, Nelson. ''Fact, Fiction, and Forecast'' (Fourth Edition). Harvard University Press, 1983, vii.</ref> According to [[Jerry Fodor]], "it changed, probably permanently, the way we think about the problem of induction, and hence about a constellation of related problems like learning and the nature of rational decision."<ref>Goodman, Nelson. ''Fact, Fiction, and Forecast'' (Fourth Edition). Harvard University Press, 1983, [https://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN9780674290716&printsec=backcover back cover].</ref> [[Noam Chomsky]] and [[Hilary Putnam]] attended some of the lectures on which the book is based as undergraduate students at the [[University of Pennsylvania]], leading to a lifelong debate between the two over the question of whether the problems presented in the book imply that there must be an [[innate]] ordering of hypotheses.((Citation needed|date=August 2013))

==References==
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==Further reading==
*[[Nelson Goodman|Goodman, Nelson]] (1955). ''Fact, Fiction, and Forecast''. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard UP, 1955. 2nd edition, Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1965. 3rd. edition Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1973. 4th edition, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard UP, 1983. ((ISBN|0-674-29071-2)).
* Elgin, Catherine, ed. (1997). ''The Philosophy of Nelson Goodman: Selected Essays.'' Vol. 2, ''Nelson Goodman's New Riddle of Induction.''  New York:  Garland. ((ISBN|0-8153-2610-6)).

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