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    Challenges→Dispositionalism cannot dissolve the central problem of characterizing what the colors of objects are without vacuity, circularity, regress, or other damaging vices.

    Any adequate account of object colors must characterize what those colors are without vacuity, circularity, or regress.

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    There have been two major objections to dispositionalism. These have been discussed (and rejected) by J. Levin (2000). One objection is that the dispositionalist theory cannot give a satisfactory account of the phenomenology of visual color experiences. Let us come back to this objection. The second major problem is that it cannot dissolve what many think is the central problem of dispositionalism, the problem of characterizing just what the colors of objects are supposed to be, “without vacuit

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