cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/19504984

Itโ€™s all relative

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Color is a social construct

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Well, the names for different parts of the color spectrum are, I suppose. Wavelength of EM radiation, and how your brain interprets it as color, is โ€˜realโ€™.

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I think they were alluding to a different use of the word color.

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What use? The only thing I can think of is โ€˜colourfulโ€™ language, which doesnโ€™t seem to really make sense in this context.

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This technically goes down a very interesting line of thought that Vsauce covered once.

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