Jane_the_Bane
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There was this guy who had a shrapnell embedded in his brain after WW2 - and he wasn't capable of understanding the concept of "red" any longer. He wasn't colourblind. He was perfectly capable of distinguishing colours, but he just couldn't put a name to the colour red any more.
Eskimos know more than half a dozen words for snow - and therefore perceive it completely differently from us. That's how it works. Collectively. Not objectively.
Eskimos know more than half a dozen words for snow - and therefore perceive it completely differently from us. That's how it works. Collectively. Not objectively.
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