Review of Don Dedrick, naming the Rainbow: Colour language, colour science, and culture [Book Review]

Philosophy in Review/ Comptes Rendus Philosophiques:106-109 (2001)
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Abstract

By spotlighting the irreducible role of cognitive processes between biology and culture, this synthesis and critique of the universalist tradition in colour science offers a genuine starting-point for all future 'serious inquiry into the relationship between linguistic and non-linguistic aspects of colour classification'.

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