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Universals 5 25.00%
Culturally Relativistic 12 60.00%
As a post-modernist, your "language symbols" hold no meaning for me 5 25.00%
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Old 05-16-2003, 01:44 PM   #1
juju
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Originally posted by Whit
Um, Juju, if you accept that light exists and at different frequencies how can you not accept that there's one particular frequency we call "red"?
If you define 'red' as a certain frequency of light, then it exists and is a real, scientifically provable phenomenon. If you define it as just the perception of that frequency, though, then it's not a 'real', physical thing.
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