Abstract
Colors can be understood in a logical way through the theory of opposition. This approach was recently developed by Dany Jaspers, giving a new and fresh approach to the theory of colors, in particular with a hexagon of colors close to Goethe’s intuitions. On the other hand colors can also be used at a metalogical level to understand and characterize the relations of opposition, including the relations of opposition between colors themselves. In this paper we furthermore develop a theory of psychic dispositions, using the hexagon of opposition of colors. We present a hexagon of psychic dispositions based on colors that we compare in particular with Plutchick’s wheel of emotions.
La peur au ventre, j’avançais dans le noir
avec l’espoir qu’un jour,
sans avoir à en voir de toutes les couleurs,
je ne douterai plus que je puisse atteindre la certitude
Baron de Chambourcy
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We have however been working on the brain, with Patrick Suppes (Suppes Brain Lab, Stanford University), see (Suppes-Beziau 2004).
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About rules of the game see Pequeno and Beziau (2011).
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Thanks to Catherine Chantilly, Dany Jaspers, Frank Lihoreau, Marcos Silva, and Janaina. Glória, Rio de Janeiro, October 16, 2016
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Beziau, JY. (2017). A Chromatic Hexagon of Psychic Dispositions. In: Silva, M. (eds) How Colours Matter to Philosophy. Synthese Library, vol 388. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67398-1_16
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