Grue (color)

Grue (color)

Grue has two common usages:

* Grue and Bleen, portmanteau words formed from "green" and "blue", coined by Nelson Goodman to illustrate his "new riddle of induction"
* "Grue", a linguistic and translation concept. See Distinguishing blue from green in language.


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