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skywhopperyesterday at 12:36 PM1 replyview on HN

But the color thing is self-evidently untrue. It’s not even hard to talk about. Unless you yourself are colorblind I think that would be obvious?


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bonziniyesterday at 12:49 PM

Sort of, at least some degree of relativism exists though how much is debated. Would you ever talk about sea having the same color as wine? But that's exactly what Homer called it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine-dark_sea

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity_and_the_...

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