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- 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
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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.
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