"For I imagine, anyone will easily grant, that it would be impertinent to suppose the ides of colours innate in a creature to whom God have given sight, and a power to receive them by the eyes from external objects: and no less unreasonable would it be to attribute several truths to the impressions of nature and innate characters, when we may observe in ourselves faculties fit to attain as easy and certain knowledge of them as if they were originally imprinted on the mind."
How do we really know the colors we see is what everyone else sees? Is my red your red? I think Colors had to be imprinted on the mind at one point. When we were little our parents would point to things and say this is red, the ball is blue, the grass is green, etc. We learned what the colors looked like by the first object our parents showed us. But then again in Psychology I learned that we don't actually see colors. They're wavelengths bouncing off lighting and other things. I'm not sure on this one, it can go many ways.
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I agree that it can go different ways because I have psychology also and like you said there are not colors, just wave legnths. Some people are color blind so how does that fit in? I think colors are definitely not innate because we are taught what color is what, but how can we be sure we are all seeing the same things?
I don't think colors on objects is apart of innateness. Growing up we are taught what colors are. Many people might not see the same colors in the same way. Sometimes its hard to see the colors. Looking at something that is dark blue might look black to me and look blue to someone else. Personally, i don't think color in innate because we are taught what color is and what color is what.
To answer Kimberly's answer, it has something to do with the cones and rods in their eyes. Cones are for seeing color and rods are for seeing black and white. People that are color blind it has do something with their cones.
I agree with both of you...there are no colors, there are just different frequencies that beam off the sun and look like colors. But we are taught that we see colors
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