The eligibility of a predicate or generalization for extending an inference beyond examined cases. Agreement with positive instances alone does not establish projectibility: grue and green can fit the same past examples while supporting incompatible predictions.
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.[ref]

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