Color as a material, not an optical, property

Behavioral and Brain Sciences 26 (1):37-38 (2003)
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For all animals, color is an indicator of the substance and state of objects, for which purpose reflectance is just one among many relevant optical properties. This broader meaning of color is confirmed by linguistic evidence. Rather than reducing color to a simple physical property, it is more realistic to embrace its full phenomenology.

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