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Color Matching and Color Naming: A Reply to Kuehni and Hardin

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We recently conducted an experiment to show that a lot of the empirically measured disagreement cited to support the premise that there is mass perceptual disagreement about the colors, a premise often cited by philosophers, is due to conceptual factors. Kuehni and Hardin object to how we measured disagreement and to various aspects of our experimental design. In this reply, we defend our study.

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Roberts, P., Schmidtke, K. Color Matching and Color Naming: A Reply to Kuehni and Hardin. Rev.Phil.Psych. 6, 207–212 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13164-014-0225-0

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