At 2:56 PM +0000 3/13/08, Barker, Sean (UK) wrote:
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Pat Hayes [mailto:phayes@xxxxxxx]
>> Sent: 13 March 2008 14:31
>> To: [ontolog-forum]
>> Cc: Barker, Sean (UK)
>> Subject: Re: [ontolog-forum] Anthropology of Colour
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>> But there is also independent psychophysical evidence for
>> color archetypes which are culture-independent. Not everyone
>> calls our fire-engine red "red", but everyone agrees that
>> whatever color name one has, that is the most typical example
>> of it. Similarly with 'bright yellow' and 'bright blue'.
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>Everyone? The reason I add the question mark is that the first figure in
>the book shows the contour plots for each colour of samples chosen from
>a standard chart (Munsell stimulus space). Yellow in particular seems to
>show quite a spread. (01)
Yes. If you ask people to draw a boundary around 'yellow', they will
vary a lot and even disagree with themselves from day to day. And
other cultures and languages have different boundaries for various
color terms. Still, the 'most typical' or 'best' exemplar is far more
consistent and seems to be language-independent. Or at any rate, this
was widely accepted the last time I looked, which was quite a few
years ago. Maybe this too has changed. (02)
>Green also shows a considerable variation in hue
>(though that was not on your list of bright colours). (03)
I'm not sure if there a prototypical green. Being a painter myself,
if I ever had one I have now lost it in the confusion of green
pigments :-) (04)
Pat (05)
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