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- Title
HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE INVERTED SPECTRUM.
- Authors
SCHOETTLE, TIMOTHY
- Abstract
It is possible for a person and their environment to be physically identical each day and yet the representational content of their beliefs about color are inverted. Each day they utter the same words, ‘Wow! The colors of everything have switched again today.’ In uttering these words, they express a different proposition each day. This supports the view held by Reichenbach and Carnap that when it comes to representations of colored objects, relations of similarity and difference are fundamental. There are no such things as colors like ‘redness’ and ‘greenness’ apart from the particular things we call red and green.
- Subjects
FUNCTIONALISM (Social sciences); REPRESENTATION (Philosophy); COLOR (Philosophy); PERCEPTUAL learning; SPECTRUM analysis; THEORY of knowledge
- Publication
Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 2009, Vol 90, Issue 1, p98
- ISSN
0279-0750
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1468-0114.2009.01330.x