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    Challenges→Finding that unrelated languages use distinct words for two alleged senses of a word is evidence that those senses are genuinely distinct rather than artificially distinguished

    English 'blue' covers what Russian splits into 'siniy' and 'goluboy', yet this does not show English speakers perceive a genuinely ambiguous term rather than a unified color concept.

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    Color perception and language(the main topic of the statement)
    The idea that the words a language has for colors might affect how speakers actually see and think about colors, not just how they name them.
    Concept (in philosophy)(as the philosophical subject being evaluated)
    A general idea or category that applies to many different things—like the concept 'dog' applies to all dogs, or 'redness' applies to all red things.
    Linguistic relativity (or Sapir-Whorf hypothesis)(the philosophical framework behind this discussion)
    The theory that the language you speak shapes how you think about and perceive the world, including things like colors.
    ambiguous(in logical analysis)
    Capable of being understood in more than one way; having multiple possible meanings.

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