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It has been long understood in linguistics that languages don't divide the continuous spectrum of light wavelengths into the same buckets of arbitrary color words. It is just as well understood that this doesn't have any impact on peoples' ability to perceive those wavelengths.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_Color_Terms

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity#Colour_t...

https://journals.openedition.org/estetica/1797

https://www.jstor.org/stable/2660766

parent philipov 1 year ago

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