[lit-ideas] The grue/bleen distinction
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 17:46:52 EDT
The reason I find Goodman's distinction artificial may be due to the fact
that it does not distinguish what Kripke would call a 'natural kind'. And I
fail
to see the link with induction.
In any case, I tried a search with OED to find that there are at least 125
words quoting Finnegans Wake, as they should.
No "gruebleen", though.
I tried Finnegans Wake _as occurring within the etymology section_ and came
across this interesting one:
quark:
[Invented word, associated with ‘Three quarks for Muster Mark!’ (Joyce
Finnegans Wake (1939) II. iv).
‘I employed the sound “quork” for several weeks in 1963 before noticing “
quark” in “Finnegans Wake”, which I had perused from time to time since it
appeared in 1939... The allusion to three quarks seemed perfect... I needed an
excuse for retaining the pronunciation quork despite the occurrence of “Mark”
, “bark”, “mark”, and so forth in Finnegans Wake. I found that excuse by
supposing that one ingredient of the line “Three quarks for Muster Mark” was
a cry of “Three quarts for Mister...” heard in H. C. Earwicker's pub.. IM.
Gell-Mann, private let. to Ed., 27 June 1978.]
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