To color

The proper route to colors is via color in representings ("coloring"), rather than color in representeds (colored objects). "Coloring" can explain many of the features of colored objects, and allows us to locate color-properties as properties of sensings. I shall explain and defend this view in three stages. I start with an effort to map the logical space of color expressions in ordinary language. I then discuss critically Land's theory of color, to show how one scientific theory of color can suggest how to restructure this logical space. Finally, I construct a coherent philosophical account of color which shows that colors are best understood as modes of sensing. The result is a constructivist view of color which makes the colored object an "appearance".

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