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  1. Newsgroups: sci.logic
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!galois!riesz!jbaez
  3. From: jbaez@riesz.mit.edu (John C. Baez)
  4. Subject: Re: Are all crows black?
  5. Message-ID: <1992Nov6.022305.6561@galois.mit.edu>
  6. Sender: news@galois.mit.edu
  7. Nntp-Posting-Host: riesz
  8. Organization: MIT Department of Mathematics, Cambridge, MA
  9. References: <1992Oct30.172420.1@eagle.wesleyan.edu> <1992Nov4.184630.3575@hubcap.clemson.edu>
  10. Date: Fri, 6 Nov 92 02:23:05 GMT
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  13. In article <1992Nov4.184630.3575@hubcap.clemson.edu> steve@hubcap.clemson.edu ("Steve" Stevenson) writes:
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  15. >Isn't this the "grue" problem? The "grue" problem came about (if I remember
  16. >correctly) because all emeralds were green and believed by reputable scientists
  17. >that they could only be green. Then they found blue ones...
  18.  
  19. Are you joking here?  Anyway, in case anyone hasn't heard about the grue
  20. paradox, this isn't it!  
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