The event of color
The event of color
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色彩事件
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2009
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R. Pasnau
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R. Pasnau
当对象被照亮时，它们反射的光不会简单地从其表面反弹。相反，由于物体表面附近复杂的微物理事件，光被完全重新吸收，然后重新发射。如果我们要成为关于颜色的物理学家，那么我们应该用那个事件来分析颜色，就像我们用分子运动来分析热，用振动来分析声音一样。在这一点上，颜色不是物体的固定属性，而是事件，或者(更谨慎地)与事件相关的属性。因此，黑暗中的物体颜色并不比关掉的炉子热一样多。这样的解释需要摒弃人们通常对颜色的一些看法，但这是颜色物理主义最连贯的版本。
When objects are illuminated, the light they reflect does not simply bounce off their surface. Rather, that light is entirely reabsorbed and then reemitted, as the result of a complex microphysical event near the surface of the object. If we are to be physicalists regarding color, then we should analyze colors in terms of that event, just as we analyze heat in terms of molecular motion, and sound in terms of vibrations. On this account, colors are not standing properties of objects, but events, or (more cautiously) properties associated with events. Accordingly, objects in the dark are no more colored than a turned-off stove is hot. Such an account requires rejecting some of what folk ordinarily say about color, but this is the most coherent version of color physicalism.