Readings In Philosophy And Cognitive Science英文电子书.pdf

22 Color Subjectivism C. L . Hardin Imagine the following experiment . Before you is a spinning disk , illuminated by an ordinary incandescent lamp . If most people are asked what color see on the face of the disk will they , they unhesitatingly that see a bluish . But ever the and reply they green you , skeptical cagey hesitate not because what , seedoesn t , philosopher may you look bluish for it does but because green, very plainly , you suspect a trick . And , indeed this to be a trick of sorts. , proves When the wheel is made to turn see a half -black half-white disk with a slot very slowly you , , through which a red lamp flashes. You saw no red at all before, and you can discern no bluish green now .