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(2017) How colours matter to philosophy, Dordrecht, Springer.

Impossible colours

Wittgenstein and the naturalist's challenge

Andrew Lugg

pp. 107-121

With the rise of naturalistic philosophy, conceptual analysis has faded into the background, and Ludwig Wittgenstein's account of reddish green and transparent white as grammatically excluded has been written off or ignored. While his view of such impossible colours is, as he himself saw, open to question, so too is the naturalist's alternative.

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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-67398-1_6

Full citation:

Lugg, A. (2017)., Impossible colours: Wittgenstein and the naturalist's challenge, in M. Silva (ed.), How colours matter to philosophy, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 107-121.

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