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- Title
Color nominalism, Pluralistic realism, and color science.
- Authors
Matthen, Mohan
- Abstract
Byrne & Hubert are right that it might be an objective fact that a particular tomato is unique red, but wrong that it cannot simultaneously be yellowish-red (not only objectively, but from somebody else's point of view). Sensory categorization varies among organisms, slightly among nonspecific, and sharply across taxa. There is no question of truth or falsity concerning choice of categories, only of utility and disutility. The appropriate framework for color categories is nominalism and pluralistic realism.
- Subjects
COLOR; SENSORY evaluation; DIFFERENCES; REALISM; NOMINALISM; UTILITY theory
- Publication
Behavioral & Brain Sciences, 2003, Vol 26, Issue 1, p39
- ISSN
0140-525X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0140525X03410017