
HoP 300a - The Relevance of Ancient Philosophy Today
History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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Is There a Color in the Body?
Colours are qualities tat in here, tol they're just as real as shapes, yes. There's been and also, more recently, keith allan has written a nice on a naive realism about color. A trandon, it's not dominant view yet. I mean, you just, in a way gave a reason for thinking it shouldn't be - namely that the underlying material constituents of things doesn't really have color. But people don't usually think that there are no tables just because tables are made atoms. So it seems to me a little bit odd to say that because atoms aren't color, aren't colored, that there’s no such thing as color
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