> On Feb 19, 2016, at 9:45 AM, Eduardo Corte-Real A. Corte-Real <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> I really think that what separates the existing flux of light wave lengths spectrum are words.
> There is a linguistic moment in which you stop saying blue, and… you can’t start saying green and… you finally can start saying green.
Eduardo seems to be referring to the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. It’s the belief that language and culture affect color perception rather than merely affecting the description of color perception. I’ll leave that to others.
Color is not a wave length and a wave length is not color. Color is not a set of wave lengths and a set of wave lengths are not color. While words may be used to attempt description of color, words are not colors in the sense that Terry seemed to be asking about.
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