Full Idea
Grueness, as defined by Goodman, is not associated in the way greenness and blueness are with causal potentialities.
Gist of Idea
Grueness is not, unlike green and blue, associated with causal potential
Source
Sydney Shoemaker (Causality and Properties [1980], §06)
Book Reference
Shoemaker,Sydney: 'Identity, Cause and Mind' [OUP 2003], p.219
A Reaction
Expressed rather more simply in Idea 7296. 'Grue' is a characteristic production of a predicate nominalist (i.e. Goodman), and that theory is just wrong. The account of properties must mesh with the account of induction.
Related Idea
Idea 7296 'Grue' is not a colour [Milsted]