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To: Alamo-Girl
Is this text green? would you care to enlighten me, so the speak, with an objective definition of green that covers all cases in which people call something green in color?
251 posted on 03/18/2005 8:11:41 AM PST by js1138
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To: js1138; Alamo-Girl
Is this text green? would you care to enlighten me, so the speak, with an objective definition of green that covers all cases in which people call something green in color?

Better make sure to cover the 10% of men who are red-green colorblind, too!

253 posted on 03/18/2005 8:14:32 AM PST by Right Wing Professor
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To: js1138; Alamo-Girl

What shade of green?

I believe the bit you are reffering to is Alamo's point of universality.

She is referring to (correct me if I'm wrong here A-G) the "perfect" green. There are many represnetations of green, though to see it we

a) need to get a shade of green.

and

b) need to place the green on a medium to percieve it.

Care to show us just "green" js?

Not text colored green. Just green.


260 posted on 03/18/2005 8:22:47 AM PST by MacDorcha ("You can't reverse engineer something that was not engineered to begin with")
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To: js1138; Alamo-Girl
would you care to enlighten me, so the speak, with an objective definition of green that covers all cases in which people call something green in color?

Whether or not it's possible to give an objective, covering-all-cases definition of a range of experiential qualia -- or even of one such quale -- doesn't really address the question whether such qualia are universals. If that specific shade of green can recur identically in more than one context, it's a universal in the sense in which ontologists use the word. If not -- that is, if two occurrences of what seem to be the exact same color are really two different but 'exactly similar' qualia -- then that specific shade is not a universal. (Most modern nominalists would invoke trope theory or something equivalent at that point.)

264 posted on 03/18/2005 8:29:36 AM PST by OhioAttorney
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To: js1138
Your text is green. Or maybe grue. It will turn blue next week.
353 posted on 03/18/2005 10:25:57 AM PST by Doctor Stochastic (Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
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