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Re: Colors, Schemes, Theories

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From: Jamie
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 21:22
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>I mean exactly what is contained in Berlin and Kay (1969?/1991?).

Can you give a more complete citation? I would like to look at the
article.

>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.

I see. Thank you for explaining this.

Here is how I would gloss the phenomenon:
by "color" those people mean something different from what we mean.

Is that how you would gloss the phenomenon, or were you thinking of
some other point?

And, what does it have to do with scientific realism?

Jamie
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