Perceptual variation, realism, and relativization, or: How I learned to stop worrying and love variations in color vision

Behavioral and Brain Sciences 26 (1):25-26 (2003)
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Abstract

In many cases of variation in color vision, there is no non-arbitrary way of choosing between variants. Byrne and Hilbert insist that there is an unknown standard for choosing, while eliminativists claim that all the variants are erroneous. A better response relativizes colors to perceivers, thereby providing a color realism that avoids the need to choose between variants

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Jonathan Cohen
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