ravenhood
English
Noun
ravenhood (uncountable)
- The property of being a raven.
- 1988, Keith John Cooper, The use of scientific method in assessing religious conceptual systems, volume 2, page 280:
- So a law of nature which said, say, that Ravenhood is causally linked with blackness would entail both All ravens are black and All non-black things are non-ravens, but would not entail a law linking non-blackness with non-ravenhood.
- 1995, Friedel Weinert, Laws of Nature, page 23:
- If this could be shown, the above statement would be systematically related to other statements about ravenhood in particular and the genetics of feathered creatures in general.
Usage notes
- Used in philosophical discussions of Hempel's raven paradox.
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