Nelson Goodman’s philosophy synthesizes German/Austrian Logical Empiricism, as developed and practiced by philosophers like Rudolf Carnap and Carl Hempel, with American Pragmatism of the kind practiced and advocated by C.I. Lewis. Goodman, however, departs from both traditions considerably. As we will see, he departs from Lewis’s pragmatism in dismissing the idea of an indubitable given in experience. He departs from logical empiricism in giving up a principled analytic/synthetic distinction.