Science and philosophy explain why a color is objectively real, even when people see the same shade differently.

This is because visual systems vary from person to person. Moreover, an object’s color may appear differently against different backgrounds or under different lighting. These facts might ...

Objects and materials have different characteristics or properties. The properties of materials include features such as color, size, and shape; whether theyare rough or smooth, shiny or dull, hard or ...

Viewing coloured objects, or images through different coloured pieces of cellophane can cause objects to appear a different colour. They may even seem to disappear. This is because the cellophane ...

This is because visual systems vary from person to person. Moreover, an object’s color may appear differently against different backgrounds or under different lighting. These facts might ...

These facts might naturally lead you to think that colours are subjective. That, unlike features such as length and temperature, colours are not objective features. Either nothing has a true colour, ...