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    Challenges→Realist Color Primitivism cannot give a non-arbitrary account of normal observers and standard viewing conditions.

    We can coherently suppose changes in normal observers' eyes or in standard viewing conditions such that objects previously appearing yellow would appear red while remaining physically unchanged.

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    appearing yellow/appearing red(as used in philosophy of perception)
    How something looks to our eyes and mind, as opposed to what it actually is—the subjective experience of color rather than the objective physical reality.
    coherently suppose(as used in epistemology and metaphysics)
    To imagine or think about something in a way that makes logical sense and doesn't contradict itself.
    normal observers(as used in philosophy of perception)
    People with typical, healthy eyesight and normal human perception abilities.

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    physically unchanged(as used in metaphysics and philosophy of perception)
    Something that remains exactly the same in its material makeup and actual properties, even if it appears different.
    standard viewing conditions(Averill's argument exploits the possibility of changing these conditions arbitrarily)
    The set of environmental conditions (lighting, background, distance, etc.) under which an object's color is taken to be accurately perceived.

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    Another major problem for the realist version of Color Primitivism is one that Hardin (2004, 2008) and Cohen (2009) have especially stressed. They draw attention to a vast range of facts concerning the variety of conditions under which objects appear to have the colors they do, and the variety of classes of observers for whom the colors appear. Since the only way to determine what primitivist color a body has is by the way it appears, this raises the question of which is the body’s real color. N

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