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Is There a World Without a Color?
Can we really experience something in the absence of a category or concept, especially when it comes to color? Or do we experience things that are grouped together by convention as having some essential bond just because that's how we are used to classifying them? A guy named Jules Davidoff who found a tribal community in Namibia that also doesn't have a word for blue. He showed them a bunch of squares that were all green except one of them was blue. And he asked them to identify which square doesn't fit into the series. The research subjects took a very long time and couldn't actually identify the one that didn't belong in the category.
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