Re: Favourite colour
Kevin Mulligan <[email protected]> Mon, 15 Aug 2005 10:37:53 +1200
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As a philosopher I'd like to point out that your studies are a waste of time. Anything with any supposed scientific backing is going to turn out to be wrong sooner or later. As I already said, talking about colours in relation to light is a non-argument unless you can explain why light would possesses the characteristics of a colour. On 15 Aug 2005, at 10:28, Aled Treharne wrote: > As a physicist, I'd like to point out that you're completely wrong > - black > is the absence of everything whilst white is merely what our brains > interpret as a mix of the entire spectrum. Of course, this is only > talking > about light, whereas with pgiments, you're correct. > > YMMV. HAND. > Aled. > > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: public-bounces-Hb7ITwsGSD4lroQnaJEqWdi2O/[email protected] >> [mailto:public-bounces-Hb7ITwsGSD4lroQnaJEqWdi2O/[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kevin Mulligan >> Sent: 14 August 2005 10:44 >> To: Blitzed News Goat >> Subject: Re: [blitzed] 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: >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>> 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 >>> >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> public mailing list >> public-Hb7ITwsGSD4lroQnaJEqWdi2O/[email protected] >> http://lists.blitzed.org/listinfo/public >> >> >> > > >