The results of my favorite color survey are here:
http://blog.xkcd.com/2010/05/03/color-survey-results/
There's a link to take the survey there too, if you'd like, though he isn't
collecting any more responses.
Mark
On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 6:45 PM, DZDub <jdubikins@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I seem to recall that either Locke or Hume argued that the
> mind/imagination can supply a missing (unperceived) shade to fill a gap
> between neighboring shades. Empirical conundrum.
>
> Joel W.
>
>
> Sent from my Galaxy
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> -------- Original message --------
> From: Andrew Fildes <afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date:
> To: Olympus Camera Discussion <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [OM] Vision
>
> Not me mate. I regard it as an intangible which we treat as if absolute.
> Even avoiding the subjective problems of colour perception, I tend to
> challenge students to tell me where colour actually exists. Mental CGI.
> Andrew Fildes
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>
>
> On 29/01/2013, at 3:25 AM, Brian Gray wrote:
>
> > But I am not sure what the view of professional Philosophers
> > is on this since in my experience there is a tendency for tutors at an
> > introductory level to regard an object's colour as an absolute
> > characteristic of the object, and have enough difficulty coping with
> > arguments about the effects of different ambient lighting.
> > But one piece of advice, be careful for a while after the operation and
> > try not to have an accident like one friend recently who went water
> > skiing too soon afterwards and suffered a bad fall.
>
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