[lit-ideas] From Grue to Bleen -- And Back
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 14:54:15 EDT
Here from the obituary of Goodman (
_http://members.aol.com/Philosdog/Goodman.html_
(http://members.aol.com/Philosdog/Goodman.html)
Nelson Goodman is best known for his "new riddle of induction", which he set
up by first defining what appears to be a new color adjective, grue:
Something is "grue" if and only if it is examined before some particular time
T and
is green, or else is examined after time T and is blue. He also throws in, as
a bonus, "bleen", which applies to anything examined before time T and is
blue, or which is examined after time T and is green. Now, he says, how do we
know that the grass is green and not grue before that time T arrives, and that
the sky is blue and not bleen? This is for him, and for numerous other
analytic philosophers who jumped into the fray, a very worrisome problem
indeed!
Admittedly, he wasn't thinking _Welsh_.
J. L. Speranza, Esq.
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