Suppose a state of society in which our linguistic behavior were such that all of us, on most occasions when we wished to describe a situation involving a rose, used expressions such as "that is a cau-liflower" (or other suitable expressions containing the word "cau-liflower"); and all of us on all occasions also used expressions containing the word "cauliflower" to describe cauliflower situations.

Suppose, however, also that on all those occasions when we had before our minds the thought both of a rose and a cauliflower (for ex-ample, when our attention was drawn to our practice of using the word "cauliflower" in descriptions both of rose situations and cauliflower situations), we then called a rose "a rose" and refused to call it "a cauliflower" and insisted that on all the occasions when we had called "a rose" "a cauliflower" we had been wrong. In such a state of society would the word "cauliflower" be a correct expression to use to refer to a rose? Should we say, confronted with such linguistic be-havior, (1) that "cauliflower" would be a correct expression to use to refer to a rose (that is, that "cauliflower" would be ambiguous and would in one sense apply to roses and in another apply to cauliflow-ers; or (2) that the question is undecidable, that we would not know whether to say that it would be correct or to say that it would be incorrect to apply the expression "cauliflower" to roses (that is, that the situation would fall within the margin of vagueness between "being correct" and "being incorrect"); or (3) that we are uncertain about this question, but are somewhat inclined to alternative (2)?