‘The grass is green’ and ‘The sky is blue’ are pretty bad examples of obviously true statements (they’re actually often false—the sky is dark at night and the grass is yellow-brown when dry).
‘The sun is bright’ and ‘Water is wet’ are better statements in the same style.
Honestly, I prefer the more obvious generalities. They’re false often enough that one is able to see that it’s not a literal universal truth, but more an extremely common experience being used as an example of something uncontroversial, even with well-known non-explicitly-mentioned exceptions.
All 4 statements are incomplete—these aren’t properties of the object, but relational experiences of a person to the object. None of them are universally true for all situations (though the latter two are closer).
‘The grass is green’ and ‘The sky is blue’ are pretty bad examples of obviously true statements (they’re actually often false—the sky is dark at night and the grass is yellow-brown when dry).
‘The sun is bright’ and ‘Water is wet’ are better statements in the same style.
Honestly, I prefer the more obvious generalities. They’re false often enough that one is able to see that it’s not a literal universal truth, but more an extremely common experience being used as an example of something uncontroversial, even with well-known non-explicitly-mentioned exceptions.
All 4 statements are incomplete—these aren’t properties of the object, but relational experiences of a person to the object. None of them are universally true for all situations (though the latter two are closer).
Yeah I agree with that. I like the latter two statements because they seem just as general, simple and everyday to me, while also being more correct.
I’ve seen some convincing arguments that water is not wet.