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This philosopher’s “symmetry thesis” claims that every adequate explanation could have been used to make an earlier prediction. This philosopher’s “dilemma” claims that physicalism is false if it’s based on a contemporary understanding (15[1])of physics and trivial if it’s based on hypothetical future physics. This philosopher was the first to develop a theory that’s often critiqued with an example involving the height of a flagpole and the length of its shadow. Paul Oppenheim built on this philosopher’s (*) deductive-nomological model of scientific (10[1])explanation. Nicod’s criterion is (10[1])often invoked to resolve a problem (-5[1])stated by this (10[1])philosopher, which claims that inductive evidence for a statement is inductive evidence for its contrapositive. For 10 points, (10[1])name this German-American philosopher who posed a paradox in which a green apple provides evidence that all ravens are black. ■END■ (0[1])

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