TY - JOUR
T1 - Constraints on colour category formation
AU - Jraissati, Y.
AU - Wakui, E.
AU - Decock, L.B.
AU - Douven, I.E.J.
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - This article addresses two questions related to colour categorization, to wit, the question what a colour category is, and the question how we identify colour categories. We reject both the relativist and universalist answers to these questions. Instead, we suggest that colour categories can be identified with the help of the criterion of psychological saliency, which can be operationalized by means of consistency and consensus measures. We further argue that colour categories can be defined as well-structured entities that optimally partition colour space. We provide some empirical support for this claim by presenting experimental results, which indicate that internal structure is a better predictor of colour categories than perceptual saliency. © 2012 Open Society Foundation.
AB - This article addresses two questions related to colour categorization, to wit, the question what a colour category is, and the question how we identify colour categories. We reject both the relativist and universalist answers to these questions. Instead, we suggest that colour categories can be identified with the help of the criterion of psychological saliency, which can be operationalized by means of consistency and consensus measures. We further argue that colour categories can be defined as well-structured entities that optimally partition colour space. We provide some empirical support for this claim by presenting experimental results, which indicate that internal structure is a better predictor of colour categories than perceptual saliency. © 2012 Open Society Foundation.
U2 - 10.1080/02698595.2012.703479
DO - 10.1080/02698595.2012.703479
M3 - Article
SN - 0269-8595
VL - 26
SP - 171
EP - 196
JO - International Studies in the Philosophy of Science
JF - International Studies in the Philosophy of Science
ER -