Philosophy of color

In philosophy, there are several theories of color. Color realism holds that colors are physical properties that objects actually possess. Color fictionalism is an error theory that denies this.

Color discourse

If color fictionalism is true, and the world is not actually colored, should one just stop color discourse, and all the time wear clothes that clash with each other? Prescriptive color fictionalism would say no. In prescriptive color fictionalism, while color discourse is, stricly speaking, false, one should continue using it in everyday life as though color properties do exist.

See also

• Fictionalism
• Realism

References

• "Color" at the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• Color Realism and Color Science
• Color Realism: Toward a Solution to the Hard Problem."
• "Fictionalism" at the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• Fictionalism in Metaphysics (by Mark Eli Kalderon) at Google Books
• Color Fictionalism: Color Discourse without Colors (dissertation abstract) by Dimitria Electra Gatzia

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