No, because that only tells us the wavelength of the light that is emitted/reflected by the object; it doesn't tell us anything about the object's app...
You're saying that a thing can appear red even if it isn't. And you've said that "red" refers to light with a wavelength between 620-740nm. So you're ...
Sure. But that goes back to the question I asked before; does the "red" in "I see red strawberries" refer to that kind of light? I don't think so. Whe...
I think it's incorrect to say that because someone responds differently to the same input than most people that their perception is wrong. It seems me...
What if we use a simpler example? You and I each have an axe. We swap axe-heads. Do we each have the same axe we started with? Have we swapped axes? O...
Wouldn't you say that when I read from one copy of the Lord of the Rings and you read from another copy that we're reading the same story? I would, ev...
If the "red" in "X is red" means/refers to the same thing as the "red" in "X appears red" then either "X is red" and "X appears red" mean the same thi...
There's no problem with my philosophy. There's a problem with your claim that "X appears red but X isn't red" is sensible, where both instances of "re...
Again, unless all instances of "red" here mean/refer to the same thing, this is no different in kind to saying "it may appear red, but that doesn't me...
Saying that it isn't how it appears with respect to its colour is like saying that it isn't how it appears with respect to its taste. If it tastes swe...
The point is that if the "red" in "X appears red" doesn't mean/refer to the same thing as the "red" in "X is not red" then there's no necessary confli...
Of course it matters. If they mean/refer to the same thing and the "red" in "X appears red" refers to a type of appearance then either "X is red" and ...
I'm asking you if the two instances of "red" mean/refer to different things or the same thing. Edit: Sorry, thought you were responding to a different...
Then as I asked of Baden above, when you say "it appears red but isn't red" do the two instances of "red" mean/refer to different things or the same t...
So when someone says something like "it appears red but isn't red" (e.g. Sap earlier) do the two instances of "red" mean/refer to different things or ...
But my claim was made in a specific context, so obviously all that matters is what "red" means in that context. That it can mean other things in other...
Then your criticism above makes no sense. If the regular meaning encompasses both then my meaning isn't "idiosyncratic or controversial or even simply...
I'd say that the regular meaning is the meaning it has when we say "I see a picture of red strawberries". It's certainly not the scientific meaning th...
I get to decide what I mean by "to be red is just to appear red" when I use it. That you can use that statement to mean something else is irrelevant. ...
I don't see how. It should be obvious in the context of the illusion with the strawberries that the word "red" isn't referring to a surface that refle...
I'm not conflating. I'm explicitly avoiding conflation by drawing a distinction between being red in the sense meant when we say "I see a picture of r...
No, because the word "red" when I use it here is referring to what it refers to when I say "I see a picture of red strawberries", and this thing it's ...
Not if by "red" I mean what I mean when I say "I see a picture of red strawberries". If by "red" I mean something like "has a surface that reflects li...
What's the scientific meaning of the term "red"? Does it differ from the meaning of the term "red" when I look at image I posted earlier and say "I se...
They do in this context. Or they don't, and the claim "the apple is red" is strictly speaking a fiction (even if it's an ordinary thing to say), as co...
Sure it is. If you appear red then you're red. If you're red then you appear red. So you're red if I look at you through red-tinted glasses and not if...
What do you mean by peak wavelength range of a particular colour? Do you just mean the peak wavelength range that most people under normal light condi...
I didn't mean to give that impression. What I am saying is that it's a mistake to think that a thing's colour is a property of the stimulus (in this c...
I'm just reporting on what the neuroscientist said about it. He's the expert. And it's not as simple as two colours "sitting next to each other" appea...
I wonder what else the act of perception inheres, aside from colour. Smell? Taste? Feeling? Shape? If by this you just mean that the same external obj...
So if someone else were to look at them and see orange strawberries then "orange strawberries" in "I see orange strawberries" would also refer to thos...
Sure. But the issue is the object of perception. Does the "red strawberries" in "I see red strawberries" just refer to those blue pixels? (Should I mo...
Even the whole itself doesn't have all the properties we see it to have (the red hue). That's added by our brain's processing. As explained here, "You...
And yet when I look at the image I posted I see red strawberries. I think it's wrong to think that all the colours that we could see a thing to be are...
What's the difference between red-tinted sunglasses and eyes? They both have a role in influencing what colour we see things to be. Just look at those...
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