Abstract

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’.

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