[lit-ideas] Re: Snow is white, and Grass is green (Collected Papers by Tarski)


On Nov 29, 2007, at 4:54 AM, Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx wrote:




    gr-ass:    thing that gr-ows.
    gr-een:    colour of the thing that gr-ows.
In English, etymologically, grass (as we have Central Park to prove that) cannot be BUT green. So we need no Tarski axiom for that, because we can infer the biconditional of any analytically true sentence.
Well no, because it's not growing all the time. Annual grasses-- native to America--re-seed. Perennial grasses go dormant in the winter and dry up in the summer. When the grasses are growing they may be green, but at other times other colors--brown, or seed color-- apply. 

David Ritchie,
not mowing a meadow in
Portland, Oregon

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