The psychological question

[piccicatopolka]

Sorry for coming off as vain there by blowing the page out but yeah... pink. This was taken in my yard on a cold December night.

http://a1.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/388381_303003989730528_100000627892462_1008131_1876139087_n.jpg

12.13.11 La mia macchina fotografica blocca glassata è aumentato alla notte.

 

[Colonel Hogan]

I don't have a color that I intentionally pick for clothes or walls or whatnot. I typically prefer bold colors for paint but also favor earth tones. With clothes I am always conservative with color. Blues, blacks, etc.
I suppose I may lean towards pink sometimes but not too often.

You cannot use black as a plural. You, of all people, should know that. Black is the absence of all visible light. As soon as you add the slightest smidgen of light or pigment you have at least some form of gray.

I am feeling appropriately smug right now.

 

[glynndah]

You cannot use black as a plural. You, of all people, should know that. Black is the absence of all visible light. As soon as you add the slightest smidgen of light or pigment you have at least some form of gray.

I am feeling appropriately smug right now.

The answer to the question - "Are black and white colors?" - is one of the most debated issues about color. Ask a scientist and you'll get a reply based on physics: “Black is not a color, white is a color.” Ask an artist or a child with crayons and you'll get another: “Black is a color, white is not a color.” (Maybe!)

 

[KRCummings]

You cannot use black as a plural. You, of all people, should know that. Black is the absence of all visible light. As soon as you add the slightest smidgen of light or pigment you have at least some form of gray.

I am feeling appropriately smug right now.

But when you say gray then people see gray, they don't see obsidian or raven or whatever. For all intents and purposes there are shades of black although it may not be technically accurate.

 

[Colonel Hogan]

But when you say gray then people see gray, they don't see obsidian or raven or whatever. For all intents and purposes there are shades of black although it may not be technically accurate.

Obsidian. You did that on purpose to deprive me of my smugness, didn't you?

 

[Colonel Hogan]

The answer to the question - "Are black and white colors?" - is one of the most debated issues about color. Ask a scientist and you'll get a reply based on physics: “Black is not a color, white is a color.” Ask an artist or a child with crayons and you'll get another: “Black is a color, white is not a color.” (Maybe!)

I go with the physics guys. My second cousin was a physicist. We didn't exactly hang out together.

 

[John Doe]

But when you say gray then people see gray, they don't see obsidian or raven or whatever. For all intents and purposes there are shades of black although it may not be technically accurate.

Not all intents and purposes. As glynndah pointed out, physicists would give a different answer. It's obvious from your last clause that you know this, so I'll chalk this one up to lazy writing.