| Question posted on September 2, 2010; 1 response |
| I'm going to be a senior in high school and I've found philosophy podcasts to be a great way to sample the thoughts of famous philosophers without having to drudge through esoteric forests of essays. Between listening to Philosophy Bites... |
| Color, Philosophers |
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| Question posted on July 22, 2010; 1 response |
| How are we to define colors? I have two suggestions, but I don’t know where to go from here: (1) they could be defined based on the particular subjective experiences (particular qualia) themselves or they could be defined based on... |
| Color |
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| Question posted on June 30, 2010; 1 response |
| If everybody in the world thought blue was the best color, would it be a fact that blue is the best color? --Josh, age 11 ... |
| Beauty, Color |
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| Question posted on June 8, 2010; 2 responses |
| Wittgenstein once said that the world is the totality of facts. It seems to me that at least in the case of color this theory doesn't apply. What facts can be said about the "redness" of a red object. Perhaps... |
| Color, Philosophers |
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| Question posted on March 19, 2010; 1 response |
| Are there logical relations between colors? For instance, is it logically true that red and blue make purple?... |
| Color |
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| Question posted on March 11, 2010; 1 response |
| Since I am doing a study about colors and how they relate to the natural world in ways that we perceive them, there is an obstacle for this research. What is the opposite color of Brown, a neutral color representing... |
| Color |
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| Question posted on February 4, 2010; 1 response |
| Are black and white colors, or not?... |
| Color |
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| Question posted on March 24, 2009; 1 response |
| I have a question about colors. I always wonder if other people see the same color as I see. For example, we can agree that apple's color is red, but is it possible that we are refering to different colors... |
| Color, Mind |
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| Question posted on December 9, 2008; 1 response |
| Can a person who was born blind know what "red" looks like? Is there any way you can explain it to him/her so that he/she can perceive it the way we do?... |
| Color, Perception |
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| Question posted on October 28, 2008; 2 responses |
| Is there any objective, scientific way to prove that we all see colours the same? I know it's one thing for two people to point at an object and agree on its colour, even the particular shade, but there's... |
| Color, Mind |
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| Question posted on February 14, 2008; 1 response |
| When trying to imagine a completely new colour, similar to those that already exist in brightness - a basic new colour - but one that has never been percieved before - it is antaginizingly impossible. Is this merely a demonstration... |
| Color |
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| Question posted on June 9, 2007; 2 responses |
| I have always thought that with the primary colors and black and white, you can create any color that we see. This may sound dumb, but then how do you make neon colors? What else can you add... |
| Color |
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| Question posted on November 30, 2006; 1 response |
| If eyes had never evolved, would LIGHT still exist (or: be manifest)? By this I do not mean: would there still be electromagnetic radiation of a certain range of wavelengths (there would, of course). Rather, I mean: in the absence... |
| Color |
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| Question posted on February 24, 2006; 1 response |
| It is legitimate to say that tomatoes instantiate the property red.
But is it also legitimate to say that tomatoes "cause" the instantiation of the property red?
Thank you.... |
| Color |
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| Question posted on February 15, 2006; 2 responses |
| I was once asked at a University PPE interview, Does time have a colour? I found it both extremely interesting and baffling. My opinion was that as time was not a physical property it could not have a colour yet... |
| Color, Time |
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| Question posted on January 21, 2006; 1 response |
| The word 'color' has three meanings, as far as I can tell: 1, certain properties of atoms and molecules that make them emit electromagnetic radiation in the so-called visible range; 2, mixtures of frequencies of this electromagnetic radiation that go... |
| Color |
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| Question posted on December 27, 2005; 1 response |
| I am having trouble with secondary qualities, which are manufactured in the brain after receipt of digital signals from the sense organs. For example, if I see a green leaf, I know that chlorphyll molecules in the leaf transmit electromagnetic... |
| Color |
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| Question posted on November 18, 2005; 1 response |
| If it turned out that colours had four dimensions instead of the perceived three, would that mean that colours we see now do not exist?... |
| Color |
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| Question posted on November 17, 2005; 1 response |
| The color of something is the color of the spectrum that isn't taken in by an object. However when I look at the color "green", do I see the same tint someone sees when they see "blue"? The identification of... |
| Color, Knowledge |
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| Question posted on October 22, 2005; 1 response |
| Can a new color be made that is not like, or mixed from, any other?... |
| Color |
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