Coalescence processes in strange ways
Coalescence processes in strange ways

Summary/Abstract: Goodman’s ‘New Riddle of Induction’ pits us ‘Realworlders’ against his chimerical ‘Grueworlders’, whose perceptual faculties and classifying scheme play tricks on them as far as our ways of worldmaking are concerned. Goodman’s enigmatic imaginary construct merges with Davidson’s essay on malapropisms, and both are interpreted through the ‘Prisoners’ Paradox’, which returns us to Peirce’s ten signs. Peirce’s concepts of vagueness and generality flow into the scene insofar as they are interrelated with overdetermination and underdetermination. This brings us a step closer to some form of a nonlinear, context-dependent, complementarily coalescent, cultural-processual ‘logic’.

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