Anti‐Atomism about Color Representation

Noûs 47 (2):94-122 (2013)
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According to anti-atomism, we represent color properties (e.g., red) in virtue of representing color relations (e.g., redder than). I motivate anti-atomism with a puzzle involving a series of pairwise indistinguishable chips. I then develop two versions of anti-atomism

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