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Article #853Re: Colors, Schemes, Theories
From: Christopher Green
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 19:47
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 19:47
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In article <1ius3kINNltg@cat.cis.Brown.EDU> PL436000@brownvm.brown.edu (Jamie) writes: >Christopher Green: > >> (Note that many cultures do not have the same color scheme as us.) > >I would like to know what this means. > I mean exactly what is contained in Berlin and Kay (1969?/1991?). That we all have the same visual apparatus, and therefore make the same similarity judgments is not at all to the point. I mean simply that different cultures divide up the spectrum (a theoretical claim, by the way) in different ways. E.g. they call two shades species of the same color where we call them different colors. No controversy here. -- Christopher D. Green christo@psych.toronto.edu Psychology Department cgreen@lake.scar.utoronto.ca University of Toronto Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A1
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Newsgroups: sci.philosophy.tech Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!utcsri!psych.toronto.edu!christo From: christo@psych.toronto.edu (Christopher Green) Subject: Re: Colors, Schemes, Theories Message-ID: <1993Jan12.194759.5489@psych.toronto.edu> Organization: Department of Psychology, University of Toronto References: <1993Jan12.160605.27799@sarah.albany.edu> <1ius3kINNltg@cat.cis.Brown.EDU> Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 19:47:59 GMT Lines: 20