Structural Realism for Secondary Qualities.
This paper outlines and defends a novel position in the color realism debate, namely structural realism. This position is novel in that it dissociates the veridicality of color attributions from the claim that physical objects are themselves colored. Thus, it is realist about color in both the seman...
| Publicado en: | Erkenntnis Vol. 79; no. 3; pp. 481 - 511 |
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