Predicate entrenchment
= Predicate entrenchment
In <Nelson Goodman>'s account, the standing a predicate acquires through a history of actual projections. It concerns the use of the predicate in inference, rather than merely the number of past objects satisfying it. Entrenchment is revisable and is not a proof of future reliability.<Fact, Fiction, and Forecast by Nelson Goodman>[Chapter IV, sections 2–4]{ref}