C.L. Hardin's eliminativistargument shows that surface spectral reflectance properties—not observer-relative facts—are the proper truthmakers for color discourse, making relativistveridical parity illusory.
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Spectral reflectance properties(what Hardin says is the real basis for color)
The way a physical object bounces different types of light off its surface; this is the actual, measurable science behind what we call 'color.'
Veridical parity(a false advantage that relativists wrongly claim to have)
The idea that two different competing views are equally valid or equally true; neither is better supported than the other.
observer-relative(metaphysics and epistemology)
Something that depends on who is looking at it or how they perceive it, rather than being the same regardless of who observes it.
truthmakers(as used in metaphysics and logic)
In philosophy, a truthmaker is the thing in the world that makes a statement true. For example, the existence of snow is what makes the statement 'snow is white' true.