Re: CHAT: Religion, Philosophy & Politics

On Thu, May 04, 2000 at 11:56:44PM -0400, John Cowan wrote:
> Herman Miller scripsit:
>
> > Interesting. Jarrda uses essentially the same solution as Loglan, in the
> > case of words such as "large". But "red" is specifically defined as a
> > particular frequency of light. If you claim that something is "red" in
> > Jarrda, what that basically means is that it is more similar to the
> > definition of "red" than it is to any of the other words in the same
> > category.
>
> The trouble is that something can look red without reflecting that
> frequency of light at all.  The human vision system is extremely complex.
Uh oh.  Qualia. :)