The Missing Shade of Blue
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10694480 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robert Cummins (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1978 |
| Volume | 87 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 548 |
| Publication date | 1978-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Philosophical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0031-8108 • E-ISSN: 1558-1470 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2184459 |
| OpenAlex | W2325500633 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
ume is quite sure that blind persons cannot understand color-words. This is puzzling given his famous concession at II.16 of An Enquiiy Concerning Human Understanding that it is possible to have an idea of a certain color without having the corresponding impression.' It is puzzling because Hume's reason for thinking that the blind cannot understand color-words is that the blind cannot have color-impressions. His argument is aparently this: (A) (i) The blind cannot have color-impressions. (ii) Ideas follow impressions-i.e., one cannot have an idea of x (purple, necessary connection, or whatever) without first having a corresponding impression of
Blue light · Optics · Physics · Categorization, perception, and language · Color perception and design · Color Science and Applications
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,13 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2011 (2) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |