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I don’t even understand what you’re asking. What do you mean by “pick out”? Are you asking me to name each hue without using words? Obviously I can’t ...
August 10, 2024 at 12:33
I can distinguish between them. That’s how I can see 5 hues in that first image. It’s not just a single hue like the second image.
August 10, 2024 at 12:09
This obsession that you and others have with Wittgenstein and language is a hopeless confusion. Colour experiences, like other experiences, concerns s...
August 10, 2024 at 11:49
No it wouldn’t. We’d just have words that refer to individual hue percepts.
August 10, 2024 at 11:46
I don’t need words to see that there are lighter and darker shades of red. I don’t need language to see colour at all because seeing colours does not ...
August 10, 2024 at 11:26
I don’t have individual names for shades. What is the relevance of your question?
August 10, 2024 at 11:18
I can distinguish shades of red. https://www.color-hex.com/palettes/23370.png I can see that there are 5 different colours (or hues if you prefer), no...
August 10, 2024 at 11:05
Our eyes are detecting and responding to the same wavelengths of light. We see different colours because our brains react differently to the signals s...
August 10, 2024 at 10:41
What does Wittgenstein's private language argument have to do with anything we're discussing here? We have words like "pain" and "sensation" that refe...
August 10, 2024 at 10:13
The SEP article on fictionalism seems relevant here: Some seem to insist on the fiction, denying the sense in asking deeper questions.
August 10, 2024 at 09:56
See what I said to Banno about the distinction between the adjective "red" and the noun "red": Colours, as ordinarily understood in everyday life, are...
August 09, 2024 at 10:10
Carrying on from this, here are two different claims: 1. An object is red if it looks red 2. An object looks red because it is red With the first, a s...
August 08, 2024 at 12:06
Because that's what this discussion is about. We're accepting realism in the general sense; atoms exist, reflecting wavelengths of light, and trees ar...
August 08, 2024 at 10:58
But you just did with pain? You accept that pain is a mental percept. Presumably you accept that trees are not a mental percept? Or are you actually a...
August 08, 2024 at 10:27
Not the same article, but this one is free to read: And this quote may be of interest to @"Banno" and @"Hanover":
August 08, 2024 at 09:43
The adjectives "red" and "painful" describe things like pens and stubbing one's toe. The nouns "red" and "pain" refer to the mental percepts that pens...
August 08, 2024 at 09:05
Do you believe that pain is a mental percept or a mind-independent property of distal objects? If the former, does this lead to something like idealis...
August 08, 2024 at 08:56
And adding cold water to boiling water means I no longer feel pain when I put my hand in the water. That doesn’t entail that pain is a mind-independen...
August 07, 2024 at 17:03
Some paint reflects 700nm light, which causes us to see red. Some paint reflects 450nm light, which causes us to see blue. Painting your room changes ...
August 07, 2024 at 15:30
You're misunderstanding. The Morning Star is a planet, but it is perfectly appropriate to ask if the Morning Star is a planet or a star (e.g. if one i...
August 07, 2024 at 15:08
I'll finish my time here by quoting the SEP article again. I believe this summary is correct: I trust physicists and neuroscientists over Wittgenstein...
August 07, 2024 at 14:40
It is.
August 07, 2024 at 14:27
That it's wrong. The word "percepts" refers to percepts, the word "pain" refers to a subset of percepts, and the word "colour" refers to a different s...
August 07, 2024 at 13:25
Well, as a nominalist I don't buy into universals. But the existence or non-existence of universals seems like matter for a separate discussion.
August 07, 2024 at 12:17
I don't understand what you're asking. All I am saying is that colours as ordinarily understood are, like pain, mental percepts. I don't deny that the...
August 07, 2024 at 11:53
The cause of the percept "transcends" the individual, sure. And we all agree that stubbing one's toe is painful. But pain is nonetheless a mental perc...
August 07, 2024 at 11:46
Ask the same question about pleasure and pain.
August 07, 2024 at 11:42
Do you deny that percepts exist when we dream? Do you deny that colours are properties of dreams? If you do not deny either then you must accept that ...
August 07, 2024 at 11:22
So to make this simple, here are two sets of claims: Naive realism 1. Our ordinary conception of colours is that of sui generis, simple, intrinsic, qu...
August 07, 2024 at 10:01
I perceive pain and pleasure. Pain and pleasure are mental percepts. I perceive smells and tastes. Smells and tastes are mental percepts. I perceive c...
August 07, 2024 at 09:46
It's unclear what you mean here. You seem to be using the singular noun "colour", which presumably refers to a singlular thing. So there's some singul...
August 07, 2024 at 08:03
You are back to using the adjective "red". I am talking about the nouns "red" and "colour". Do you understand the distinction between an adjective and...
August 07, 2024 at 07:59
If I am seeing the wrong colours then the colours I see are not mind-independent properties of the computer screen. So what are these colours I see? P...
August 07, 2024 at 07:52
He doesn't conflate. He recognises, as I have been arguing, that colours as ordinarily understood and talked about are the appearances/percepts, not a...
August 06, 2024 at 16:11
Yes, I mentioned that in an earlier post. But what should be noted is that those who claim that colours are mind-independent clearly believe that ther...
August 06, 2024 at 14:52
I didn't enter this discussion to question scientific realism and argue for idealism or solipsism or nihilism. I am simply explaining what the science...
August 06, 2024 at 14:40
Your argument seems to be that if I claim that colours are mind-dependent then to be consistent I must claim that everything is mind-dependent. This i...
August 06, 2024 at 14:21
It talks about "different individuals view the same image ... reported it to be widely different colors" and "different individuals experienc differen...
August 06, 2024 at 13:57
No, it's a scientific fact. There's a whole bunch of studies on the matter, such as Exploring the Determinants of Color Perception Using Thedress and ...
August 06, 2024 at 13:45
It's not arbitrary. I've just read up on some physics and neuroscience of perception. Atoms are mind-independent objects with mind-independent propert...
August 06, 2024 at 13:41
The word "experiences" refers to experiences, so why can't the word "colours" refer to a subset of experiences? And again, the use of the nouns "white...
August 06, 2024 at 13:25
I haven't denied this. I've only argued that our ordinary, everyday understanding of colours is an understanding of colour experiences, not an underst...
August 06, 2024 at 13:05
That depends on what you mean by "know". If you mean certainty, then sure; we can't know what each person is experiencing. If you mean a true, justifi...
August 06, 2024 at 12:35
I don't understand what you mean. Is there a "standard" pain? A "standard" pleasure? A "standard" sour taste?
August 06, 2024 at 12:16
We certainly have evidence that colour experiences can differ between individuals; the dress is the obvious example, but also differences in color cat...
August 06, 2024 at 12:04
Referring to the SEP article you referenced before: Our ordinary conception of colours is that colours are "simple intrinsic, non-relational, non-redu...
August 06, 2024 at 11:33
The word "red" can be used to refer to an object's disposition to cause certain colour experiences, but they ordinarily refer to those certain colour ...
August 06, 2024 at 11:18
They aren't referring to both. When my colleague and I look at the photo of the dress we see different colours. The noun "colours" isn't referring to ...
August 06, 2024 at 08:03
"Visual percepts" is standard terminology in the neuroscience of perception. See visual percepts evoked with an intracortical 96-channel microelectrod...
August 06, 2024 at 07:56
Yes you can; it's called refutation by contradiction.
August 05, 2024 at 16:42