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2752700 No.2752700 [Reply] [Original]

You are looking at a yellow car.

What color is the yellow car when you close your eyes?

>> No.2752709

thesefuckingthreads.tiff

>> No.2752711

There was never a yellow car

>> No.2752715

Light that is enabling you to see the "yellow" car is still there. However, there is no yellow car.

>> No.2752722

Worst attempt at a troll

>> No.2752740

It still reflects yellow light (light of wavelength between durp nm and hurp nm) when white (uniform/Gaussian/whatever distribution of photons of certain wavelengths), therefore it is still yellow.
IHBT, HI?

>> No.2752767

>>2752700

Depends on your definition of colour. Is it the frequency of the reflected light coming from the cat? Is it the impression in one´s brain?

Need more info, OP.

>> No.2752780

If other people have also been noted as having perceived a yellow car, then technically it is yellow, isn't it?

>> No.2752797

>>2752700
Troll
>>2752715
Philosopher
>>2752722
A person who is right
>>2752740
Physicist
>>2752767
Logician
>>2752780
Engineer

>> No.2752808

>>2752797
this makes me lawl cuz its mostly true

>> No.2752811

>>2752700
>>2752715
>>2752722
>>2752740
>>2752767
>>2752780
>>2752797
same person

>> No.2752810

>>2752797

>Logician

I´m actually a physicist, but thanks.

>> No.2752813

>>2752811

No, you are same person, as well as this guy

>>2752813

>> No.2752820

>>2752813
At least I'm not a negro like
>>2752815

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2752823

>>2752700
Are you one of the 6%?

>> No.2753309

it's reflecting lit with a wavelength of 570–580 nm bitch

>> No.2753367

>>2752700
OP, here's a question for you. You are looking at a human, does he/she turn into a cat when you close your eyes?

>> No.2753422

Saying that the car "is" yellow has no meaning, and in fact, saying that a bunch of atoms gathered together in one place "is" a car also has no meaning. The word "is" prevents your mind from truly understanding anything. It acts as a crutch by oversimplifying absolutely everything that you observe.

"Hey, look, that is a car."
What if I cut it in half? Which half of it "is" the car then? What if I just remove one of the wheels? "Is" the rest of it still a car? What determines whether a mass of metal and rubber and plastic "is" a car or not?

>> No.2753427

>>2753422

If you have a car and you cut it in half, it's a car cut in half. I'm a philosophy major, and how retarded can one be?

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2753461

Enjoy your mind getting blown to smithereens.

Picture related.

>> No.2753479

>>2753427
> and how retarded can one be
Good question... your lack of understanding of my point "is" a good start down that road.

It's still the same pile of atoms before and after it's cut in half. Some of the atoms are just moved. The point is that you can't define what a car "is." It's impossible. For any definition that you can give, someone can point out a thousand loopholes that completely ruin your boundary between what "is" and "isn't" a car. Or anything else.

>> No.2753496

>>2753422

It is a car that is missing a wheel.

They are also each half of a car.

You could look at wheels as missing cars.