rainbow

[Andrew Dinn]

RokyE at aol.com writes:

> ps  *color*  exists beyond our perception or ability to name, as it is meerly
> flavours of a continous electromagnetic spectrum.

Uhh, you've got the cart before the horse there. `flavours of a
continous electromagnetic spectrum' are something predicated upon our
common, agreed, well-understood and *prior* concept of colour. The
only reason anyone ever considered relating the physics of
electromagnetism to colour phenomena was because they could correlate
said physics with colour observations. If that last point doesn't
highlight the *independence* of the two concepts (at the same time as
establishing the nature of the dependence between them as a *human
construction*) then I can't help you any further than pointing you
back at the philosophy books.

Nuff said. Back to our regular schedule on the casting couch.


Andrew Dinn
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