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Blue is one of the three primary additive colors; blue light has the shortest wavelength range (about 420–490 nanometers) of the three additive primary colors. The English language commonly uses "blue" to refer to any color from blue to cyan. An example of a blue color in the RGB color space has intensities [0, 0, 255] on a 0 to 255 scale. Blue is the complement of yellow. For this reason, blue 80A filters are used to correct the excessive redness of tungsten lighting in color photography. Blue - Naming and etym ...

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The support which the premises provide for the conclusion is dependent on the number of individuals in the sample group compared to the number in the population, and the randomness of the sample. The hasty generalization and biased sample are fallacies related to generalization. Statistical syllogism  A statistical syllogism proceeds from a generalization to a conclusion about an individual. A proportion Q of population P has attribute A. An individual I is a member of P. Concl ...

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The modern English word blue comes from the Middle English, where it began to be used along with bleu, an Old French word of Germanic origin (possibly Old High German blao, "shining"). A Scots and Scottish English word for "blue-grey" is blae, from the Middle English bla ("dark blue," from the Old English blæd). As a curiosity, blue is thought to be cognate with blond and black, also with Latin flavus ("yellow"; see flavescent and flavine) and with Russian � ...

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In his book Fact, Fiction, and Forecast, Goodman introduced the "new riddle of induction", so-called by analogy with Hume's classical problem of induction. He accepted Hume's observation that inductive reasoning (i.e. inferring from past experience about events in the future) was based solely on human habit and regularities to which our day to day existence has accustomed us. Goodman argued, however, that Hume overlooked the fact that some regularities establish habits (a given piece of copper conducting electricity increases the cred ...

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Grues have featured in each of the Zork games and many other of Infocom's games, becoming a company trademark or in-joke, often referred to with the stock phrases of "slavering fangs", "razor-sharp claws" and "horrible gurgling noises". The science fiction title Planetfall reuses both the "You are likely to be eaten by a grue" line and the grue's description, replacing the word "adventurer" with the current job title of the protagonist. Additionally, Planetfall makes reference to grues having been unwittingly taken from their h ...

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Philosophers have offered many solutions to this violation of intuition. The American logician Nelson Goodman has suggested adding restrictions to our reasoning, such as never considering an instance as support for "All P are Q" if it would also support "No P are Q". Other philosophers have questioned the "principle of equivalence". Perhaps the red apple should increase our belief in the theory "all non-black things are non-ravens", without increasing our belief that "all ravens are black". That suggestion has been questioned, ...

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The entire game takes place in the year 948 GUE although the passage of time is not notable in gameplay. The player steps into the deliberately vague role of an "adventurer". The game begins with no preface near a white house in a small, self-contained area. Although the player is given little instruction, the house provides an obvious point of interest. When the player enters the house, it yields a number of intriguing objects: an ancient brass lantern, an empty trophy case, and an intricately engraved sword. Beneath a rug, a trap do ...

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Many languages do not have separate terms for blue and green, instead using a cover term for both (when the issue is discussed in linguistics, this cover term is sometimes called grue in English). For example, in Vietnamese both tree leaves and the sky are xanh (to distinguish, one may use xanh lá cây "leaf grue" for green and xanh nước "water grue" for blue). Chinese has a word 青 qīng that can refer to both, though it also has separate words for blue (蓝 / 藍 lán) and green (绿 / 綠 ...

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Azzurro, a light blue, is the national color of Italy. Blue (along with white) is the national color of Israel and the color is seen on the Israeli flag. Dark blue is associated with the University of Oxford and light blue with the University of Cambridge. The sporting colors of these universities are called "the blues." A specific shade of dark blue is associated with Yale University. Blue Devils are the mascot of many American universities; Duke University's blue devils are the most famous. Ironically the ...

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Blue may denote the working class, derived from the traditional color of factory uniforms. Blue-collar workers are industrial workers and are often contrasted white-collar office workers. However, in contrast to "blue collar," the phrase "blue blood" is used to mean "from an aristocratic background," because pale, untanned skin–a sign of nobility–allows blue-tinged veins to show through. Several vocations are associated with blue. Law enforcement, and uniformed police, often wear blue uniforms and have become associa ...

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Blue, like white, may represent authority as opposed to revolutionary red or black. During the American Civil War, blue was used to represent the Union while gray represented the Confederacy. This representation was based on the uniforms worn by the respective armies, although uniforms remained non-standard thoughout the war and sometimes the colors were switched. Internationally, blue is the symbol for conservatism and conservative political parties. There are several notable exceptions and different meanings: In ...

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A "blue book" is an almanac or similar reference work. For example, the Oregon Blue Book is the official directory and fact repository of the state of Oregon, while the Harvard Bluebook dictates a style of legal citation. The Blue Book is a term for a policy document issued by the Federal Communications Commission in the United States in 1946, urging television networks to uphold their commitment to public service. The Kelley Blue BookSee also:

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Goodman graduated from Harvard University in 1928. During the 1930s, he ran an art gallery in Boston, Massachusetts while studying for a Harvard Ph.D. in philosophy, which he completed in 1941. His experience as an art dealer helps explain his later turn towards aesthetics, where he became better known than in logic and analytic philosophy. During World War II, he served in the US Army. He taught at the University of Pennsylvania, 1946-64, where his students included Noam Chomsky and Hilary Putnam. He left Penn because he was not gran ...

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Blues is a music genre. A blue note is a note between the regular notes on the scale. Blue notes are the most important notes in the blues scale. Bands called "Blue" include two British musical groups: the rock group Blue and the boy band Blue. Blue is the title of an album by the Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell, and Kind of Blue is the title of an album by Miles Davis, one of the world's best-selling jazz recordings. Blue Man Group is a performance art group fou ...

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Blue is the color and name of the main character (a dog) in the preschool animated educational television show Blue's Clues. On Star Trek, medical and scientific personnel wear blue uniforms. On Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends, there is a character named Blooregard Q. Kazoo, more commonly named Bloo, and pronounced blue. He is a blue bloblike imaginary friend. ...

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When numerous people over thousands of years observe something like the law of gravity, we tend to believe that it is true with very high probability. This type of reasoning could be summarized by the principle of induction: If an instance X is observed that is consistent with theory T, then the probability that T is true increases Hempel gives an example of the principle of induction: the theory that all ravens are black. We go out and examine a million ravens, and observe that they are ...

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Goodman, along with Stanislaw Lesniewski, is the founder of the contemporary variant of nominalism, which argues that philosophy, logic, and mathematics should dispense with set theory. Goodman further argued that a formal system he called the calculus of individuals, which he took over from Henry Leonard's 1930 Ph.D. thesis, should be put in the place of set theory. These ideas reached fruition in Goodman's 1951 The S ...

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