Philosophy: Is The Red Rose Really Red?

[Truthstalker]

Hmmm it seems as if your mood has changed.

What if i said to you that the dark void we see in universe is really a black canvas wrapped around a spherical object, of which exists in a mega-marcoscopic universe; what is your reaction to this comment?

How do you know that is what it is? Perhaps it is a cow in a bucket instead? Or sea shells flying to Mars? IOW seems kind of arbitrary to me.

The best explanation, and the simplest (not that those are always congruent) is that the rose is actually red. God sees a red rose. God made roses to be red.

 

[freesoulhope]

God sees a red rose. God made roses to be red.

This is a very confident remark. So let me get this straight you know that God made roses red? How do you know that the rose isn’t actually blue but due to the atmosphere we see red?

By the way, you haven’t got anything agains’t being imaginitive do you?:ehh:

 

[freesoulhope]

How do you know that is what it is? .

I thought it was a rather fun thing to say actually; i never claimed that it was the truth.

peace.

 

[Truthstalker]

I thought it was a rather fun thing to say actually; i never claimed that it was the truth.

peace.

How do you know that fun is not the most efficient way of understanding the truth? (sounds like a thread to me!)

 

[Ani_Ibi]

Our perceptions may disagree (which is why perceptions aren’t genuine knowledge), but the object giving rise to our various perceptions does have reality, as an object of knowledge. If it had no basis in reality, we couldn’t even talk about the object, let alone its color, could we?

Oh, I could. :yup:

 

[Zooey]

I have always wondered if a red rose which is red to me is red to someone else. What if someone else’s red is blue to them? Understand what I am saying? We both see a red rose, but their preception of red is really what I see as blue… I am confusing everyone now probably.

Ever met those people that just could not color cordinate themselves? This is what made me think of this.

God bless

No, I know what you mean, & I have wondered the same thing myself…
The reason I think about this sometimes, is that I have vision problems, in fact I am legally blind without my glasses. My mother & grandmother felt terrible when they found out that I hadn’t been seeing things but didn;t know the difference…But I got around the house & yard, etc, with no problems, by going entirely by color. The result is that I am especially sensitive to colors; I had to be, & it remains…
Anyhow, I see things that “match” to other people & they are nowhere near the same color. I notice when things clash that nobody else notices. So, I know that my perception of color is different from many people.
Why not everybody??