
John Campbell on Berkeley's Puzzle
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The Fallacy of Colour
Most educated people would take it for granted that colour is projected onto the world by the mind. But science can tell you there is a level of description of the world at which we don't talk about colour. That does not show that colour is the work of the mind. It just shows that we have to talk about different levels here. So, it's what you're saying that the starting point was wrong. Barclays assumption that we can separate the real qualities of the world from those which we project onto what we perceive were just a fallacy.
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