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<p>[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 2907711, member: 112"]What's being discussed now is basically people's definitions, or descriptions if you will, of what is red, orange, pink, red brown, brown or any other color. </p><p><br /></p><p>Now that may sound silly to some, but it isn't. To the contrary, it is the norm. What one person calls red another will call orange, and somebody else might call it pink. Find this hard to imagine, well lemme give ya a little test here to try for yourself. Try to describe a color, define a color, any color - to a blind person. I'm betting you will be completely unable to do so. Why ? Because you simply can't do it, it cannot be done. You know what a given color looks like to you because you define the color. But if 5 other people look at the same object they might, and almost certainly will, say it's a different color altogether.</p><p><br /></p><p>The only way to describe colors or intelligently talk about colors is to show pictures of them and then state what color you'd call that.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 2907711, member: 112"]What's being discussed now is basically people's definitions, or descriptions if you will, of what is red, orange, pink, red brown, brown or any other color. Now that may sound silly to some, but it isn't. To the contrary, it is the norm. What one person calls red another will call orange, and somebody else might call it pink. Find this hard to imagine, well lemme give ya a little test here to try for yourself. Try to describe a color, define a color, any color - to a blind person. I'm betting you will be completely unable to do so. Why ? Because you simply can't do it, it cannot be done. You know what a given color looks like to you because you define the color. But if 5 other people look at the same object they might, and almost certainly will, say it's a different color altogether. The only way to describe colors or intelligently talk about colors is to show pictures of them and then state what color you'd call that.[/QUOTE]
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