“But surely I feel justified when normally I use the word ‘red’ although I don't thing think of a def. while doing so.” Do you mean that whenever ˇnormally you use the word ‘red’ you have a particular feeling which you call a feeling of justification. I wonder if that is true. But true or not ˇanyhow by ‘justific’ I didn't mean a feeling. But I think I know what makes you say that on saying e.g. this
book
chair
is red you have a feeling of being justified in using the word. For you might ask: isn't there an obvious difference
between the case in which I use
use
apply
a word in its well known meaning as when I say to someone ‘the sky is blue today’ & the case in which I
say
apply
any arbitrary word on such an occasion e.g. ‘the sky is moo’. In this case, you will say, I either know that I am [1|just]
giving
fixing
a meaning to the word ‘moo’ or else I ˇshall feel that
there is no justification whatever for using
I have no justification whatever to use
the word. The word is just any word & not the appropriate word. I quite agree that there is a difference in experience between the cases of ‘using the name of the colour’, ‘giving a ˇnew name to the colour’ & ‘using
some
any
arbitrary word in the place of the name of the colour’. But that doesn't mean that it is correct to say that I have a feeling of appropriateness in the first case which is absent in the other third. “But ‘red’ somehow seems to us to fit this colour”. We certainly may be inclined to say this sentence on certain occasions but it would be wrong to say that therefore we had a feeling of fitting whenever ordinarily we said that something was red.