like as a physical property. i don’t know any color-ology maybe there’s a simple way to make me get it but

IT SEEMS like color depends entirely on BRIGHTNESS so an OBJECT can’t have a fixed COLOR because BRIGHTNESS changes all the time!

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The problem with that question is that “color” is multiple distinct things, some of which are physical or have discrete properties and others of which are entirely subjective or cultural. Like the actual color of an object, as in how it absorbs, refracts, and reflects light is a physical property of its surface and material. The color of light is a physical property of its wavelength, which can be altered by the medium it’s passing through. Your personal perception of color is internal and subjective. The concept of general blocks of color with names is entirely cultural.

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