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Précis of Writing the Book of the World
Author(s) -
Sider Theodore
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
philosophy and phenomenological research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.7
H-Index - 39
eISSN - 1933-1592
pISSN - 0031-8205
DOI - 10.1111/phpr.12069
Subject(s) - citation , computer science , library science
Nelson Goodman (1978) said that there is no “ready-made world”. Human physicists use words like ‘charge’, ‘mass’, and ‘distance’, but nothing would be wrong with instead describing the world using cooked-up words derived from those of physics in the way that Goodman’s ‘grue’ and ‘bleen’ are derived from ‘green’ and ‘blue’.