I seem to recall that either Locke or Hume argued that the mind/imagination can
supply a missing (unperceived) shade to fill a gap between neighboring shades.
Empirical conundrum.
Joel W.
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From: Andrew Fildes <afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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To: Olympus Camera Discussion <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [OM] Vision
Not me mate. I regard it as an intangible which we treat as if absolute. Even
avoiding the subjective problems of colour perception, I tend to challenge
students to tell me where colour actually exists. Mental CGI.
Andrew Fildes
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On 29/01/2013, at 3:25 AM, Brian Gray wrote:
> But I am not sure what the view of professional Philosophers
> is on this since in my experience there is a tendency for tutors at an
> introductory level to regard an object's colour as an absolute
> characteristic of the object, and have enough difficulty coping with
> arguments about the effects of different ambient lighting.
> But one piece of advice, be careful for a while after the operation and
> try not to have an accident like one friend recently who went water
> skiing too soon afterwards and suffered a bad fall.
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