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Objectivism about Color and Comparative Color Statements. Reply to Hansen *
Author(s) -
GómezTorrente Mario
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
noûs
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.574
H-Index - 66
eISSN - 1468-0068
pISSN - 0029-4624
DOI - 10.1111/nous.12128
Subject(s) - subjectivism , objectivism , argument (complex analysis) , semantics (computer science) , epistemology , philosophy , linguistics , psychology , computer science , chemistry , biochemistry , programming language
Nat Hansen builds a new argument for subjectivism about the semantics of color language, based on a potential kind of intersubjective disagreements about comparative color statements. In reply, I note that the disagreements of this kind are merely hypothetical, probably few if actual, and not evidently relevant as test cases for a semantic theory. Furthermore, even if they turned out to be actual and semantically relevant, they would be intuitively unusable by the subjectivist.