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Carl Gustav Hempel, 1905-1997. German-American logical posivist and philosopher of science. He is best remembered for his work in the philosophy of logic, where he noted the paradox which arises when one assumes that all non-contradictory evidence increases confidence in a statement.

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Carl Gustav Hempel Essay with bibliography on this 20th-century thinker's life and ideas, by Mauro Murzi. From the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. www.utm.edu/research/iep/h/hempel.htm

On the Nature of Mathematical Truth Text of Hempel's 1945 paper from the American Mathematical Monthly. Notes, table of contents, and text in separate frames. www.ditext.com/hempel/math-frame.html

Geometry and Empirical Science Text of a 1945 paper by Hempel from the American Mathematical Monthly. Frameset with table of contents and text in separate frames. www.ditext.com/hempel/geo-frame.html

Problems and Changes in the Empiricist Criterion of Meaning Text, with original pagination, of a 1950 paper by Hempel from the Revue Internationale de Philosophie. www.lawrence.edu/fac/boardmaw/Hempel_Emp_Crit.html

FOLDOC: Hempel Carl Gustav Entry on this logician and philosopher, with links to related topics. www.swif.uniba.it/lei/foldop/foldoc.cgi?Hempel+Carl+Gustav

Biography.com: Hempel, Carl Gustav Brief outline of the life of this German-born thinker. search.biography.com/print_record.pl?id=15754

The Doomsday Argument and Hempel's Problem Paper by Paul Franceschi, discussing Hempel's paradox of confirmation in detail, and a commonly-proposed solution to it. www.univ-corse.fr/~franceschi/HP(GB).html