Universal colour perception versus contingent colour naming: A paradox?

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences 20 (2):209-210 (1997)
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Confusion concerning the issue of universality of colour categorization would greatly diminish if context regains its fundamental status in psychological research and we give up on the reductionist notion that biological universality implies behavioral universality

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