ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the evidence for the existence of such new colour experiences and what their philosophical ramifications would be. It defines the notion of ‘novel colours’. The only things that, plausibly, might ‘forbid’ them are certain theories of colour—theories that rule out the existence of such colours or colour experiences. In more philosophical terminology, the judgements are based on the phenomenal character of the colour experience and on the phenomenal nature of the colours. According to the standard account of the colour, black and white appear to people to be opposites and not to contain any chromatic colour. Manzotti, R. argues that when the readers examine all the visual experiences that their ever have, perceptual, illusory, or hallucinatory, the readers cannot find one that isn’t composed of solely of the elements that their have experienced when seeing the world.
