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> which has (for me) the fairly stunning revelation that you can't see a color you can't name. Then how did they get named in the first place?
by 6d0debc071 13y ago
> which has (for me) the fairly stunning revelation that you can't see a color you can't name.
Then how did they get named in the first place?
- rafcavallaro 13y agoBy other cultures. Example: show a set of color swatches all identical blue with one bluish green. Ask participants to indicate the exception. Speakers of languages with a blue-green distinction get it right essentially instantly (< 1 second); native speakers of languages without a blue-green distinction can take as much as 30 seconds and actually get it wrong (I.e., indicate one of the identical blue swatches)
- 6d0debc071 13y agoHow did the other cultures name them in the first place? Can't be turtles cultures all the way down the stack.