@Night Ripper,
Night Ripper;134667 wrote:The surface of the apple hasn't changed but the color of the apple isn't a property of the surface of the apple. It's a property of your experience of seeing the apple. That depends on context, such as light. If the light changes, the color of the apple changes. In green light, the apple appears black instead of red. The apple has changed color.
If your response is to say "well it only appears black but it's really still red" then you mean something bizarre by color because I mean "the color something appears".
Why, if by something having a color,
you mean "the color it appears to have", is it bizarre to mean the color it has? You think it is bizarre to disagree with you?
Anyway, we don't think that the color something appears to have always is the color it is. For example, sometimes, when I buy some article of clothing, I ask to take it to see it in daylight because the color it appears to have under the
fluorescent lights of the store distort the articles real color. The real color of the apple which I see in the supermarket certainly isn't the color it had when I take it home under my dingy lights. And, if Jane dyes her mousy hair blond, do you think that the color her hair appears is the real color of her hair? You must be naive.
"Philosophy is an assemblage of reminders" Wittgenstein.