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Definitions
Wiktionary
- adj. philosophy Of an object, blue when first observed before a specified time or green when first observed after that time.
Etymologies
- Blend of blue and green; coined by Nelson Goodman to illustrate concepts in the philosophy of science (Wiktionary)
Examples
“True english speakers would combine blog with ween and come up with "bleen" or, as it is spoken in the west; "BLING!”
“February 4, 2008 at 1:02 pm see, DIS is wut “bleen” meenz.”
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“However, grue-bleen speakers would agree that the aim of reliably settling on a correct generalization requires the natural projection rule rather than the gruesome one, even if they would want to express the conjectures of the natural rule in their grue-bleen language rather than the blue-green language that we have used so far.”
“It will continue to be green, though it will also be true that it ceases to be grue and comes to be bleen.”
“For example, we can imagine a group that projects the concepts grue and bleen rather than our green and blue.”
“It is both normatively incorrect for us to project such concepts (it violates our standards for good inductive inferences), and it would in fact be very difficult to bring ourselves to do so, to believe viscerally that grass is grue and the sky is bleen.”
“Only a madman would project grue or its partner in crime, bleen.”
“[391] Where, as you expect, x is bleen if either it is examined before”
“Who are You going to believe, anyway -- Me, or some pathetic mortal who wouldn't know logic if logic painted itself grue with bleen stripes and sang "New Math" at the top of its lungs at twilight while wearing nothing but a net and riding a goat?”
“˜grue-bleen™ (where x is grue iff x is green and examined before time t, and is blue otherwise, and vice versa for bleen.)”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘bleen’.
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Pigment of Your Imagination
Mix and match the phonemes in colors!
bleen, grue, grink, blurple, silvorange, grack, lavendeen, blundigo, yelled, violink, blink, rue and 44 more...
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Fictional Colors
Is my red the same as your red?
fuligin, grue, bleen, hooloovoo, octarine, squant, ulfire, burnt ulfire
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Myriadmiration
Neologisms ala Wordnik.com. Directly below are links to some other New Word lists... pease suggest yours to add!
Ne(word)er by whichbe
fake words by sionnach
frivolous uni...obstacular, frenemy, delayering, playgue, abjective, contradictionary, sarchasm, goggly, ecolect, disimagine, alligavate, sniboluous and 330 more...
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Philosophical Jargon
Words philosophical writers use to give the illusion of technical competence, including up-trippingly specialised senses of words that have other jobs during daylight hours.
akrasia, akrates, particularism, particularist, mereology, deontology, cognitivism, naturalism, anti-naturalism, ethics, phenomenology, metaethics and 220 more...
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Metaflip
Blasted binaries, background pattern inversions, and subtlety awareness.
apophenia, fissiparous, doppelganger, intertextuality, presque vu, unsung, dittology, enantiodromia, pareidolia, silhouette, rorschach, galanty and 151 more...
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rosiesroll's list
verbatim, gormandize, portcullis, arabesque, phenomenology, supervenience, a priori, solipsism, trolleyology, trope, prima facie, ontology and 25 more...
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more colours
interesting colours mostly out of spectrum
Tweets
Looking for tweets for bleen.

fbharjo true grue Jul 14, 2009
yarb In philosophy, an artifical predicate, complementary to grue. Oct 23, 2007