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    Challenges→Reductive Color Physicalism and Color Dispositionalism cannot salvage color realism.

    The phenomenal inadequacy objection conflates the epistemic role of color experience with the ontological question of what colors are, a distinction Byrne and Hilbert explicitly defend.

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    Byrne and Hilbert(as the originators of the theory being discussed)
    David Byrne and David Hilbert are contemporary philosophers who developed a theory together about what colors actually are in the physical world.
    Conflates(in argumentation and logic)
    Treats two different things as if they're the same thing, or mixes them up in a way that causes confusion.
    Epistemic role(in epistemology (the study of knowledge))
    The function something plays in how we know things or think about knowledge—basically, how it helps us understand or believe things.
    Ontological question(in metaphysics)
    A question about what something actually is or exists as in reality, separate from how we experience it.
    Ontology(Carnap argues this enterprise is based on a mistake)

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    The philosophical discipline that tries to answer hard questions about what there really is.
    Phenomenal inadequacy objection(in philosophy of color and perception)
    A philosophical criticism arguing that our subjective experience of color (what it's like to see red) cannot fully explain what color actually is in the physical world.
    color experience(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.

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