Re: Favourite colour

As an philosopher I hold the opinion that black and white are not  
colours.  Black is the over-abundance of colour while white is the  
absence of colour.


On 14 Aug 2005, at 21:13, Matt Marsh wrote:


> Philipp Kern wrote:
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>> On Aug 14, 2005, at 10:27 , Tim Hicks wrote:
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>>> Look, if black and white aren't colours - what are they?
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>> Black absorbs all and white reflects all. They aren't really  
>> colours  then, right? ;)
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> According to [1]Wikipedia:
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> "Some examples of necessarily non-spectral colors are the  
> achromatic colors (black, gray and white)..."
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> therefore implying that they are colours.
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> Matt
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> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colour