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Keynes, edits to 'inductive reasoning' and 'grue'

I have recently made a few edits to inductive reasoning and reflected them here, mainly by including a reference to Keynes. It seems to me that these are relevant to the 'grue' problem but do not have a source for this.

My thinking is that one makes induction based on 'experience' so one would be led by induction to expect a continuation of experiencing emeralds as grue, rather than being committed to calling them grue. Doesn't this shift this 'problem of induction' to one of denotation?--Djmarsay (talk) 17:28, 20 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Emeralds are not grue according to the present definition

"Something is grue if and only if it has been observed to be green before a certain time t, and blue if observed after that time." The "and" tells us that both the first and second part have to be satisfied. The first one is easily satisfied for emeralds. The second one is never sayisfied for emeralds. Emeralds are not grue. TheGoatOfSparta (talk) 19:33, 25 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]