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

Antecedents to  Tarski's disquotational T-scheme for the axiomatization of 
the first-order  predicate calculus with a nonsemantic metalanguage.
 
 
SOURCE 1

1562 HEYWOOD Prov.  & Epigr. (1867) 51 
 
               Snow is white And lyeth in the dike. 
 
1820SHELLEY dipus<NOBR> Ty II. i. 78 
 
             Allow me to remind you, grass is green.  

1878 HUXLEY Physiogr. 155 
 
               Snow is  white and opaque in consequence of the air entangled 
among its  crystals.
 
1887 F. FRANCIS Jun. Saddle & Mocassin 163 
 
           Turn 'em on to your range when the grass is green;..they get stuck 
on it  then, and stop there. 
 
1929  S. HOFFENSTEIN Poems in Praise 59 
 
             The grass is  green, the cows are mooing. 
 
1951 AUDEN & KALLMAN  Rake's Progress  I. 17 
 
                 The sun is bright, the grass is green: 
                 Lanterloo, lanterloo. 
                 The  King is courting his young Queen. 
                  Lanterloo, my lady.
 
1953 K. BRITTON J. S. Mill vi. 194, 
 
         I say ‘This  snow is white’... The  predicational form of 
         sentence indicates this  connexion [between whiteness and 
         the other qualities of  snow]: whereas ‘There is snow and noise’ 
          does  doit is not asserted that the snow is  noisy. 
 
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