Color Realism: True or Not?
Z. G. Ma *
California Institute of Integral Studies, 1453 Mission St., San Francisco, CA 94103, USA
*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Abstract
Color realism refers to that things are colored, or colors are real. Although the view goes in a minority opinion, Byrne & Hilbert defend it based on the physical properties of color and the peculiarly assumed hue-magnitudes. However, hues are mind-dependent and cannot be used as a measure of the physical properties of things. As a result, the defense fails to justify the proposition of color realism.
Keywords: Color, realism, hue