wedrifid comments on Unsolved Problems in Philosophy Part 1: The Liar's Paradox - Less Wrong

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Comment author: wedrifid 01 December 2010 04:43:03AM 0 points [-]

Omega places a number of colored boxes if front of you. Omega tells you that boxes with an even number of boxes in the same basic color contain $200,000 while those with an odd number contain bombs. The colors are such that speakers of languages with different divisions of the spectrum in basic color words group the boxes differently (Omega repeats the explanation in several different languages in a random order). Does this thought experiment reveal anything interesting about the concept of color?

Omega can only do this if by some coincidence the the even/oddness of each box is the same in every language.

Does this thought experiment reveal anything interesting about the concept of color?

Yes, even so.