Hempel's paradox

== English == === Etymology === Proposed by the logician Carl Gustav Hempel in the 1940s to illustrate a contradiction between inductive logic and intuition. === Proper noun === Hempel's paradox A paradox arising from the question of what constitutes evidence for a statement. Observing objects that are neither black nor ravens may formally increase the likelihood that all ravens are black, even though, intuitively, these observations are unrelated. Synonym: raven paradox ==== See also ==== nonraven ravenness