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Old 01-23-2005, 12:00 PM   #37 (permalink)
CSflim
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Originally Posted by Yakk
False, The single-frequency colour fallacy, yet again.

The human eye and brain can't percieve wavelengths. They can percieve how some pigments respond to various wavelengths. Pure wavelengths have a perceptual colour, but the perceptual colour is not determined by a range of wavelengths.

Light in that range implies the light is red. Red light is not defined by that range.
My point was, that we can define 'red' in terms completely ignoring humans, eyes, or any kind of conscious perception. We can define a colour as an objective propery of an object.
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