Re:According to Japanese Traffic Lights, Bleen Means Go
by mannykannot on Friday September 15, 2017 @01:38PM
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When you have a continuum, most distinctions are to some extent arbitrary, and the simplest distinction scheme is the dichotomy.
This line of thought leads me to wonder just how fixed these categories are. Given two languages, each with two words for colors, such that one word in each language would be used for things we call red, and the other for things we call blue, do they agree on where the boundary lies?
This line of thought leads me to wonder just how fixed these categories are. Given two languages, each with two words for colors, such that one word in each language would be used for things we call red, and the other for things we call blue, do they agree on where the boundary lies?