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- From: PL436000@brownvm.brown.edu (Jamie)
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- Subject: Re: Colors, Schemes, Theories
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 16:22:37 EST
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- >I mean exactly what is contained in Berlin and Kay (1969?/1991?).
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- Can you give a more complete citation? I would like to look at the
- article.
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- >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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- I see. Thank you for explaining this.
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- Here is how I would gloss the phenomenon:
- by "color" those people mean something different from what we mean.
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- Is that how you would gloss the phenomenon, or were you thinking of
- some other point?
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- And, what does it have to do with scientific realism?
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- Jamie
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