Sound like you just claimed the apple has no color at all.Great questions!
My first thought it reminds me of 'Vagueness' in LEM logic or bivalent qualities:
This apple is red.
Upon observation, the apple is an undetermined color between yellow and red, or it is mottled both colors. Thus the color falls into neither category " red " nor " yellow ", but these are the only categories available to us as we sort the apples. We might say it is "50% red". This could be rephrased: it is 50% true that the apple is red. Therefore, P is 50% true, and 50% false. Now consider:
This apple is red and it is not-red. — 3017amen
Married and bachelor are two seperate and opposing qualities. — Harry Hindu
It seems to me that you are a bachelor until the ink dries, if the state of the ink is what determines whether you are a bachelor or married.As far as i'm concerned, I'm a married-bachelor until the ink of the registrars signature is dry. — sime
Jack is a newlywed.
Oh really? Was Jack a newlywed in the past, present or future? — 3017amen
So contradictions and sentences without any clear reference, are meaningless. — Harry Hindu
How the guy seems to conflate "existence" with the "present" is interesting. — Harry Hindu
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