People perceive colors categorically. But what is the role of the environment (or nature)--specifically, language--in color perception? The effects of language on the way people categorize and ...

– I gladly respond to the invitation extended to the “ friends of the Club ” to “ tell their experience ” respecting color language. The numerals also offer the same suggestions. 1 is black ; 2, dark ...

CAMBRIDGE, MA -- The human eye can perceive about 1 million colors, but languages have far fewer words to describe those colors. So-called basic color terms, single color words used frequently by ...

I offer a new objectivist theory of the contents of color language and color experience, intended especially as an account of what normal intersubjective variation in color perception and ...

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