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Old 01-30-2018, 09:23 PM   #97
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In a Philosophy class in college (and yes, I had Socrates as a professor) I once wrote a paper arguing that color is relative because it is a concept and not a hard fact. It would be very possible for the world to exist where, even though we all saw the sky as "blue" of you saw it through my eyes the way I see it you might think it was "red".
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There were two tricks to my question. The perception of individuals is one of them.
Even if every single person did perceive colour exactly the same it still impossible to describe a colour without using some form of example. This also goes back to it being a concept not a physical element. Try it.
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