ABSTRACT
The fact that our color categories are “embodied” may seem obvious-a fact that some will say we have known since at least the days of John Locke, who saw color as a “secondary” property that exists only relative to perceivers. Yet this fact is devastating for the traditional theory that concepts get their meanings by standing in objective relations to mind-independent states of affairs in the world. Further evidence that we cannot account for the structure of our concepts and categories merely by reference to “external” states of affairs comes from recent work on basiclevel categorization.13
