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Top 8 Nelson Goodman Quotes (2025 Update)

Nelson Goodman Quote: “Coming to understand a painting or a symphony in an unfamiliar style, to recognize the work of an artist or school, to see or hear in new ways, is as cognitive an achievement as learning to read or write or add.”

1. “Coming to understand a painting or a symphony in an unfamiliar style, to recognize the work of an artist or school, to see or hear in new ways, is as cognitive an achievement as learning to read or write or add.”

— Nelson Goodman

Nelson Goodman Quote: “An answer, once found, is dull; and the only remaining interest lies in a further effort to render equally dull what is still obscure enough to be intriguing.”

2. “An answer, once found, is dull; and the only remaining interest lies in a further effort to render equally dull what is still obscure enough to be intriguing.”

— Nelson Goodman

Nelson Goodman Quote: “We aim at simplicity and hope for truth.”

3. “We aim at simplicity and hope for truth.”

— Nelson Goodman

Nelson Goodman Quote: “We make versions, and true versions make worlds.”

4. “We make versions, and true versions make worlds.”

— Nelson Goodman

Nelson Goodman Quote: “Rules and particular inferences alike are justified by being brought into agreement with each other. A rule is amended if it yields an inference we are unwilling to accept; an inference is rejected if it violates a rule we are unwilling to amend.”

5. “Rules and particular inferences alike are justified by being brought into agreement with each other. A rule is amended if it yields an inference we are unwilling to accept; an inference is rejected if it violates a rule we are unwilling to amend.”

— Nelson Goodman

Nelson Goodman Quote: “If we are ready to tolerate everything as understood, there is nothing left to explain; while if we sourly refuse to take anything, even tentatively, as clear, no explanation can be given.”

6. “If we are ready to tolerate everything as understood, there is nothing left to explain; while if we sourly refuse to take anything, even tentatively, as clear, no explanation can be given.”

— Nelson Goodman

Nelson Goodman Quote: “I am concerned, rather, that there should not be more things dreamt of in my philosophy than there actually are in heaven and earth.”

7. “I am concerned, rather, that there should not be more things dreamt of in my philosophy than there actually are in heaven and earth.”

— Nelson Goodman

Nelson Goodman Quote: “What intrigues us as a problem, and what will satisfy us as a solution, will depend upon the line we draw between what is already clear and what needs to be clarified.”

8. “What intrigues us as a problem, and what will satisfy us as a solution, will depend upon the line we draw between what is already clear and what needs to be clarified.”

— Nelson Goodman

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