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So many people think that it’s some big gotcha that “black and white aren’t colors” but that’s not how language works. Color often refers to black or white. Try sticking to this gotcha at the paint store and see how much it’s appreciated.

I’m so curious where this image came from. Is it a standardized test? What are they actually trying to test?

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zikzak025@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

So many people think that it’s some big gotcha that “black and white aren’t colors” but that’s not how language works. Color often refers to black or white. Try sticking to this gotcha at the paint store and see how much it’s appreciated.

This. Color is subjective perception anyways. They are labels we give to things to describe what our eyes see in normal lit conditions. There are no absolutes about it unless you are measuring pigment makeup or light wavelength, which are not colors in and of themselves, but factors that cause color. Color is in the mind.

Someone with trianopia seeing a green leaf as blue doesn’t make the leaf not green to others, nor does the fact that it is green by consensus make it green to them. And this is all outside of the linguistic aspect of it, e.g. how long it even took a lot of languages to start differentiating blue and green as separate colors, which itself affects perception.

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