Re:The sea was never blue
by pmoriarty on Tuesday August 01, 2017 @06:40PM
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Was his daughter kept strictly isolated from all other people, or were all the other people she came in contact with also careful not to mention blue around her?
If not, it's likely she ran across the word blue in conversations she had with others, in books and stories, on television, movies, songs, etc.
I am very skeptical of how much of value could be drawn from such an experiment unless the person in question is completely isolated. Even then, that kind of isolation is likely to have deep psychological consequences that could taint the experiment even then. That's not to mention the severe and possibly insurmountable ethical problems such a study would run in to these days.
If not, it's likely she ran across the word blue in conversations she had with others, in books and stories, on television, movies, songs, etc.
I am very skeptical of how much of value could be drawn from such an experiment unless the person in question is completely isolated. Even then, that kind of isolation is likely to have deep psychological consequences that could taint the experiment even then. That's not to mention the severe and possibly insurmountable ethical problems such a study would run in to these days.