The word "greenness" is correct and usable in written English.
It typically refers to the color green, or to the quality of being verdant or lush. For example, "The greenness of the rolling hills was a beautiful sight to behold."
It is fairly uncontentious that Bertie's experience is as of a green blob and has greenness as an intentional object, and that what the experience reports is false.
For it implied what Schlick called "The Incommunicability of Contents", the idea that any effort to communicate non-formal contents, like the greenness of the color green or the distinctive smell of wood smoke, must forever remain ineffable (Oberdan 1996, Sec. 2).
He deduced that, since the F2 generation contained some green individuals, the determinants of greenness must have been present in the F1 generation, although they were not expressed because yellow is dominant over green.
Almost everyone agrees that it would be irrational to have prior probabilities that were indifferent between green and grue, and thus made predictions of greenness no more probable than predictions of grueness.
Putting the basic idea crudely: after a while on Inverted Earth certain of your inner states that on Earth were reliably caused by the presence of red things and thereby represented redness will instead be reliably caused by the presence of green things, and thereby will come to represent greenness.
Saying that someone has an associative thought green/toucan tells you something about the causal and temporal sequences of the activation of concepts in one's mind; saying that someone has the thought there is a green toucan tells you that a person is predicating greenness of a particular toucan (see Fodor 2003: 91 94, for an expansion of this point).
The company boasts of its "green chemistry", yet it has upset environmentalists for sometimes putting cleanliness ahead of greenness.
It was strange to see my son walking back to the boundary with just the players and the umpires in the vast greenness – like Viv had done in 1976 and KP had done in 2005.
George Bush, for his part, travelled to a coal plant in Michigan on September 15th to trumpet the supposed greenness of his policies.
Only one-fifth of Dongtan's 86km2 area is to be urbanised.It sounds like just the kind of greenness so urgently needed in the rest of China.
Eco-towns, with their ambitious quotas for cheap housing, will look less promising for developers in a sustained housing downturn.In this section Flaring up again The ties that bind Points of contention A revealing visit Negatively correlated Evolution, not revolution A warning vote F for fail Green, with hints of Brown Wink, wink ReprintsTheir greenness is also questioned.
