Colours

Philosophy 36 (April-July):128-142 (1961)
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In this paper I wish first of all to argue against two possible views about colour qualities, which I shall label the Objectivist and Subjectivist views respectively. I find these views to be prevalent among philosophers of my acquaintance, though sometimes they are hidden by a veneer of post-Wittgensteinian sophistication. Part of my argument will depend on modern scientific theories of colour vision. In the second part of the paper I shall argue for a different view of my own

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Epistemology and Communication Theory. Halsbury - 1959 - Philosophy 34 (131):289-307.

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