Colours
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Colour is intrinsically inaccurate
Colours
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The world is a colourful masterpiece. Do colours naturally influence the way we characterise a place, an object or a person? Or do we unconsciously assign meanings and characteristics to the colours that we see?
Colour vocabulary in different languages usually differ in the level of accuracy in describing how a certain colour looks like. However, how can we validate that the red you see is exactly the same as the red I see? How am I supposed to feel, to see, to smell, to hear and to think the way you do?
