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Color-order systems: A guide for the perplexed

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 August 2019

C. L. Hardin
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 13244 clhardin@syr.edu

Abstract

If, as Saunders & van Brakel assert, hue, lightness, and saturation characterize artificial color spaces and not the colors of everyday life, one would expect those color spaces to have limited relevance to our understanding of color phenomena and to be of little practical application. This is not the case. Although people perceive these and equivalent color dimensions holistically rather than analytically, they are able to use such triples to categorize the colors of their environment.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
1997 Cambridge University Press

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