 Does \(e\) confirm hypotheses \(h\) and \(h^*\) alike? That is, does the observation of a black raven before \(T\) confirms equally the claim that all ravens are black as the claim that all ravens are blite? Here again, one would want to say no, but Hempel’s theory is unable to draw the distinction. For one can check that the \(e\)-developments of \(h\) and \(h^*\) are both entailed by \(e\). Thus, \(e\) (the report of a raven examined no later than \(T\) and found to be black) does Hempel-confirm \(h^*\) (all ravens are blite) just as it confirms \(h\) (all ravens are black). Moreover, \(e\) also Hempel-confirms the statement that a raven will be white if examined after \(T\), because this is a logical consequence of \(h^*\) (which is directly Hempel-confirmed by \(e\)). And finally, suppose that \(blurple(x) \equiv (ex_{t\le T}(x) \rightarrow black(x)) \wedge (\neg ex_{t\le T}(x) \rightarrow purple(x)).\) We then have that the very same evidence statement \(e\) Hempel-confirms the hypothesis that all ravens are blurple, and thus also its implication that a raven will be \(purple\) if examined after \(T\)!