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    It is not the case that Levin's strategy of rejecting Revelation is itself controversial, as Johnston and others argue Revelation captures a genuine datum about color phenomenology.

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    • 1.Introspective reports about color feel are unreliable guides to metaphysics and conflate appearance with ontological claims.
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    • 2.Revelation's apparent datum dissolves under scientific scrutiny: color properties vary with lighting, observer, and neural states.
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    • 3.Accepting Revelation commits theorists to mysterious intrinsic color properties that physics cannot locate or explain.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Revelation describes a real phenomenological fact: colors appear to have intrinsic properties independent of viewing conditions.
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    • 2.Rejecting Revelation requires explaining away widespread, consistent introspective reports across cultures and individuals.
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    • 3.If phenomenology is evidence for any theory of consciousness, it should constrain theorizing about color experience specifically.
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