Lexicon of Arguments

 

I 20 ff
World/Goodman: worlds are created by groupings and classifications of kinds. They can contain heterogeneous substances. Worlds do not necessarily differ in the fact that something is omitted, but that different divisions are made by other relevances.
There is nothing unstructured.
>Systems, >Order, >Structures, >Possible worlds, >Relevance.
I 23 f
For example, a green emerald and a grue emerald, even if it is the same emerald, they belong to worlds that are divided into different kinds.
>Grueness.
The same is true for a Christ of Piero della Francesca and a Rembrandt, even though the figure represented is the same.
World Creation/Goodman: the creation of a world happens not only through the literal, but also through the metaphorical.
I 27ff
Worlds can also be created by omitting: e.g. proofreading, e.g. seeing a magic show.
I 128
Our world is also the heritage of the sciences and historians, such as the novelists and painters.
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IV 71
The task of describing the world is as meaningless as to describe the number between 2 and 7.
IV 71
The world disappears as soon as we become aware of a peculiar feature of certain pairs of apparently contradictory statements.
IV 76
There is no way to customize a world, except with the help of a version.
IV 77
We can make sense of the fact that conflicting interpretations have to do with the same text, but not of the assertion that conflicting versions have to do with the same world.