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    Supports→The color physicalist must explain what the features presented in or represented in color experience are, given that those features are distinct from reflectances.

    The categorical base grounding reflectance dispositions—surface microstructure—constitutes a physically real feature that color experience tracks, satisfying the demand for a positive account.

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    Categorical base(metaphysics/philosophy of color)
    The fundamental, unchanging physical thing that actually exists—in this case, the material properties of a surface that cause color.
    Physically real(as used in philosophy of physics)
    Actually exists in the world and has real effects, rather than being just a useful trick we made up for calculations.
    Reflectance dispositions(philosophy of color)
    The tendency of a surface to bounce back certain wavelengths of light in specific ways depending on how light hits it.
    Surface microstructure(philosophy of color)
    The tiny, microscopic patterns and features on a surface that you can't see with your eyes but affect how light bounces off it.
    color experience

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    (as used in philosophy of perception and consciousness)
    What it's actually like to see color—the subjective feeling and perception you have when you look at something colored, not just the physical facts about light wavelengths.
    grounding(Drawn from contemporary metaphysics; proposed as potentially applicable to understanding the foundations of legality.)
    A metaphysical relation in which some entities or facts are more foundational than others, providing a hierarchical structure of the world.
    positive account(as describing Wittgenstein's theory)
    A theory or explanation that describes what something actually is or how it works, rather than just saying what it's not. Here it means Wittgenstein's constructive theory about how sensation-language works.
    tracks(as used in philosophy)
    Follows along with or corresponds to something; means that if one thing is true, the other is also true.

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