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标题：On the structural properties of the colours. (Philosophical Abstracts).
作者：Cohen, Jonathan
期刊名称：The Review of Metaphysics
印刷版ISSN：0034-6632
出版年度：2003
期号：June
语种：English
出版社：Philosophy Education Society, Inc.
摘要：Primary quality theories of color claim that colors are intrinsic, objective, mind-independent properties of external objects. However, a recent, empirically motivated argument seems to have convinced many that primary quality theories cannot be sustained. This argument, in outline, alleges that colors bear structural relations to each other that no primary qualities bear to each other, and therefore that colors cannot be primary qualities. The author believes the argument in question has been misunderstood. In this paper he examines arguments based on the structural properties of the colors in order to discern what they do and do not show about primary quality theories of color.

On the structural properties of the colours. (Philosophical Abstracts).

Cohen, Jonathan

Primary quality theories of color claim that colors are intrinsic, objective, mind-independent properties of external objects. However, a recent, empirically motivated argument seems to have convinced many that primary quality theories cannot be sustained. This argument, in outline, alleges that colors bear structural relations to each other that no primary qualities bear to each other, and therefore that colors cannot be primary qualities. The author believes the argument in question has been misunderstood. In this paper he examines arguments based on the structural properties of the colors in order to discern what they do and do not show about primary quality theories of color.