color blindness, anyone?
The particular quality most english-speakers call color, is in the light. If a person or a population can't see a *color, it's cuz they have a visual or neurological deficiency, hence no knowledge of that color (and no native name).
This...
This all suggests that, until they had a word from it, it's likely that our ancestors didn't actually see blue.
...is horseshit.
We don't create Reality (and the things in Reality) in signifying; we categorize, distinguish, apply meanings to, Reality (and the things in Reality) in signifying, and we do this for ourselves, not cuz Reality requires it.
*or a shade of a color
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like the other guy sez: 'not really back, blah-blah-blah...'
Last edited by henry quirk; 12-14-2019 at 06:16 PM.
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