[for others reading along, I apologize but this won't make sense unless you go back and read Dave's example]
Well, "This colorless green idea sleeps successfully" isn't a paradox if you consider that a colourFUL idea is one that has been given nuance or interesting details- and the opposite of a colourful idea would obviously be a colourless idea. If it were green (new), I'd suggest it might even need to start out colourless- assuming it were logical/analytical/sequential and started out as a mere kernel that needed to be expanded and nuanced before it could be no longer considered green.
However. "This colorful green idea" - could that exist?
Could there be a brand new idea that springs forth fully formed, nuanced, shaded? I suppose that intuitive thoughts could (and ought) be so; the sort of right-brain creative, holistic ideas that you either "get" or you "don't get".
Leading me to wonder which is more likely to sleep furiously, a colourless or a colourful green idea?
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Date: Sunday, 23 January 2005 01:50 am (UTC)[for others reading along, I apologize but this won't make sense unless you go back and read Dave's example]
Well, "This colorless green idea sleeps successfully" isn't a paradox if you consider that a colourFUL idea is one that has been given nuance or interesting details- and the opposite of a colourful idea would obviously be a colourless idea. If it were green (new), I'd suggest it might even need to start out colourless- assuming it were logical/analytical/sequential and started out as a mere kernel that needed to be expanded and nuanced before it could be no longer considered green.
However. "This colorful green idea" - could that exist?
Could there be a brand new idea that springs forth fully formed, nuanced, shaded? I suppose that intuitive thoughts could (and ought) be so; the sort of right-brain creative, holistic ideas that you either "get" or you "don't get".
Leading me to wonder which is more likely to sleep furiously, a colourless or a colourful green idea?