Color Relationalism and Relativism
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Color Relationalism and Relativism
This paper critically examines color relationalism and color relativism, two theories of color that are allegedly supported by variation in normal human color vision. We mostly discuss color relationalism, defended at length in Jonathan Cohen's The Red and the Real, and argue that the theory has insuperable problems.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Topics in Cognitive Science
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1756-8757
DOI: 10.1111/tops.12243