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Forestalling a food fight over color

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 2003

Daniel C. Dennett*
Affiliation:
Center for Cognitive Studies, Tufts University, Medford, MA02155http://ase.tufts.edu/cogstud/

Abstract:

The disagreement between “color realists” and “color eliminativists” is better seen as a disagreement over pedagogical policies, about how best to satisfy lay curiosity about “what color is,” than as a clash of substantive theories. To suppose otherwise is to endow the ordinary language term “color” with more authority than it can bear.

Type
Continuing Commentary
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2004

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References

Note

Commentary on Alex Byrne & David R. Hilbert (2003). Color realism and color science. BBS 26(1):3–21.

1. The Editor apologizes to the author for mislaying this commentary (submitted June 27, 2002) and thanks him for taking the trouble to resubmit it for continuing commentary.

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