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    It is not the case that There is no non-arbitrary way to identify which group of perceivers is detecting the real color of an object under Color Primitivism Realism.

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    • 1.Normal perceivers divide into different groups on whether a body's color is unique blue, slightly reddish-blue, more reddish blue, or greenish blue.
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    • 2.The only way to determine what primitivist color a body has is by the way the color appears to observers.
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    • 3.At most one group of perceivers is correct about the real color, but there is no principled basis for selecting which group that is.
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    • 1.Under primitivism, colors are observer-independent intrinsic properties, yet their only epistemic access point remains perceptual appearance to observers.
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    • 2.When perceptual appearances systematically diverge across equally healthy visual systems, no appearance-independent criterion exists to adjudicate which appearance tracks the primitive property.
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    • 3.This epistemic gap between the primitive property and its only access route entails that any selection of a privileged perceiver group is stipulative rather than principled.
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    • 1.Cohen and Matthen's work on perceptual variation establishes that inter-observer chromatic differences reflect genuine biological variation, not mere noise or defect.
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    • 2.If multiple observer types represent stable, evolutionarily viable perceptual systems, the primitivist cannot appeal to biological normalcy to privilege one group's chromatic verdicts over another's.
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    • 3.Without a naturalistically grounded standard of chromatic correctness independent of any particular observer class, the primitivist's realism collapses into an undefended indexical preference.
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