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    Supports→There is no non-arbitrary way to identify which group of perceivers is detecting the real color of an object under Color Primitivism Realism.

    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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    Adjudicate(describing what functionalism can or cannot do regarding the disagreement)
    To judge, decide, or settle a dispute between two competing views.
    Systematically diverge(as used in political philosophy)
    To regularly and predictably move in different directions or toward different goals, as a pattern rather than by accident.
    appearance-independent criterion(as used in epistemology and metaphysics)
    A standard for judging truth that doesn't depend on how things look or seem to us—something objective that exists beyond what we perceive.
    equally healthy visual systems(as used in epistemology)
    Eyes and brains that work normally and have no defects or problems—basically, people with normal vision.
    perceptual appearances

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    (Descartes's proposed replacement for relational or transmissive accounts of perception)
    Entirely mental and internal representations that serve as inner stand-ins or proxies for external objects in the mind
    primitive property(Used to characterize how Broad implicitly treats presentedness)
    A property whose character and mode of functioning cannot usefully be elucidated or reduced to more basic terms
    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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