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Could we take lime, purple, orange, and teal as unique hues?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 August 2019

Justin Broackes
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912 broackes@brown.edu
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Saunders and van Brakel question whether the special status of red, green, yellow, and blue in our perceptual organization is anything more than a shadow cast by the English language. I suggest that it is more than this. We can hardly imagine treating lime, purple, orange, and teal as unique hues, and the reason does not lie in special training. To settle the issue, I suggest some lines for psychological experiment and anthropological investigation.

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1997 Cambridge University Press