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[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (5 children)

Colors are a social construct

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Colors are a retinal construct

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Both. There is a perception that's 100% biological for sure. But lumping all the blue tones together, that's social. Some languages (including Russian and Greek) have different words for light and dark blue, other languages have one word blue and green (sometimes translated as "grue"). Sure they can see the difference and name it (leave grue vs ocean grue for example) but socially, they perceive it as the same "color category".

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Some languages (including Russian and Greek) have different words for light and dark blue

In Turkish it is "mavi" and "lacivert". They are seen as different as yellow and orange.

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