Re: Favourite colour

Why?  When you mix lots of colours together you don't get white.   
When you mix white with any colour the colour is no longer white.

Light does not have a colour therefor any argument saying "BUT  
REFRACTING WHITE LIGHT SHOWS YOU THE SPECTRUM OF COLOURS" is void.   
Colour is an inherent property of an object, just like weight,  
density, length, width, height, breadth.

In fact, you could go as far to say that colours don't exist outside  
of their object since it would be very improbable (but not  
impossible) for two objects to have exactly the same colour.

This is why I disapprove of colours like "Sky Blue", "Fire-Engine  
Red", "Lemon Yellow".  Colours are only concepts and can never be  
perceived the same way twice.

On 15 Aug 2005, at 00:52, Joseph Becher wrote:

> Um, no. Black is the absence of all color and white is all colors.  
> At least in nature.
>
>> On 8/14/05, Kevin Mulligan < [email protected]> wrote:
>> 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:
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >> On Aug 14, 2005, at 10:27 , Tim Hicks wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >>> Look, if black and white aren't colours - what are they?
>>> >>>
>>> >>>
>>> >> Black absorbs all and white reflects all. They aren't really
>>> >> colours  then, right? ;)
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >
>>> > According to [1]Wikipedia:
>>> >
>>> > "Some examples of necessarily non-spectral colors are the
>>> > achromatic colors (black, gray and white)..."
>>> >
>>> > therefore implying that they are colours.
>>> >
>>> > Matt
>>> >
>>> > [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colour

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