Ilian Velikov wrote:Only if you have eyes that can perceive that wavelength of light. See, subjective.
I was talking about
technical terms in science, not about subjective experiences. In science, something
is "green" if it emits (or reflects) light of the wavelengths around 510 nm, or predominantly so - whether
we can see it or not. Scientifically, “green” means exactly the same as "around 510 nm", no more and no
less, period.
It’s just shorthand. Has nothing to do with anyone’s IMPRESSION of colour, or what “colour” means in
ordinary human speech, or what the daltonists among us “see”, or what a dog or a bee “sees”...
We (humans) can’t
see the infrared or ultraviolet light (which some other animals can), but it doesn’t
matter, the light of those wavelengths is still termed “infrared” or “ultraviolet”, and there are ways of observing/detecting these “invisible (to us) colours” quite objectively.
In the same way, “
introduced” is (is it?) a
technical term in biology, and as such should have a meaning
as precise as possible, in order that we understand each other when talking/writing... well, let’s say,
“seriously”.
You first “deconstructed” the term as a critical mind should - congrats for that, it was very inspiring - and
then you suddenly withdrew and resorted to some kind of “subjectivism”... or “political correctness”?!
In any case, what is “green” and whether a strawberry is really red had been discussed at length by David
Hume and Immanuel Kant and many others centuries ago, so let’s not repeat the argumentation... It’s old
stuff indeed. Starting with Leucippus and Democritus, two and a half millenia ago: “By convention hot, by
convention cold, but in reality atoms and void,...”
Anyway, this is really fun but it's way too off topic for this forum. Maybe if we meet some day over a
beer or something...
I've already become quite allergic to "way too off-topic for this forum". That's precisely why I had initiated this discussion in the "Theoretical Section", not in any of the "FIELD" ones. (BTW, this section was founded at my own personal initiative, approved & accepted by Mario.) I still think that discussing scientific terminology might be a "legitimate" topic for that section. Or "reservation"? My personal/private playground? Hope not so. Noone has ever been forced to join in. As for beer and discussions over it, I'm in.