Download free eBook Nelson Goodman's New Riddle of Induction. Nelson Goodman, The New Riddle of Induction.1. The old problem of induction. At the close of the preceding lecture, I said that today I should examine how. The "new riddle of induction" is the grue paradox. Something is grue if and only if it is green before T and blue after T, where T is some specified time in the future The Old Riddle of Induction is the problem that some writers find in Hume. Goodman's New Riddle is, among other thing, an argument against the possibility Goodman's new riddle of induction shows that this is a false step: not all generalizations are confirmed their instances. He shows this inventing the predicate 'grue. ' It is defined as follows: But it poses a problem when we use it in inductive arguments. Nelson Goodman & the New Riddle of Induction. Khoa Doan. Inducfion is the glory of science and the scandal of philosophy.C. D. Broad. 1. Induction and The New Riddle of Induction. Nelson Goodman. In Sven Bernecker & Fred I. Dretske (eds.), Knowledge: Readings in Contemporary Goodman's new riddle of inductioncan be characterized the following questions: What Kutschera, F. Von: 1984, 'Nelson Goodman Das neue R