Colors as explainers?

Behavioral and Brain Sciences 26 (6):785-786 (2003)
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Abstract

Byrne & Hilbert argue that colors are reflectance properties of objects. They also claim that a necessary condition for something's being a color is that it causally explain – or be causally implicated in the explanation of – our perceptions of color. I argue that these two positions are in conflict

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