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Luminous Grey: Speculations on Five Remarks by Wittgenstein
36. Whatever looks luminous does not look grey. Everything grey looks as though it is being illuminated.
37. What we see as luminous we do not see as grey. But we can certainly see it as white.
38. I could, then, see something now as weakly luminous, now as grey.
39. I am not saying here (as the Gestalt psychologists do), that the impression of white comes about in such-and-such a way. Rather the question is precisely: what is the meaning of this expression, what is the logic of this concept?
40. For the fact that we cannot conceive of something 'glowing grey' belongs neither to the physics nor to the psychology of colour.
[Ludwig Wittgenstein, "Remarks on Colour"]
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