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Re: All languages known to have exactly six basic color terms describe the [#permalink]
I pick E.

E compares native speakers of Tarahumara to the Spanish; a culture that does not distinguish colors red/blue with a culture that does. If culture ( and by extension, its linguistic limitation) is not to have a bearing on color perception, then the people of Tarahumara should be able to distinguish the difference between blue and green. This is not the case. Further, this impairment does not affect the Spanish, whose language does differentiate between the two colors.

My initial pick was C. But "object that would be called yellow" left me with a little skepticism. Are things that are called 'yellow' necessarily yellow? Like 'yellow' fever for example? Since C talks of a cultures that only employ 3 color groups, we have no idea how they will perceive yellow. More reason to doubt C.

E sounds better.

I took 147 seconds on this. So I loose anyway :(
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I pick D.

D talks about how speakers of different languages differentiate between colored objects, and they all share the same thoughts for green and blue..
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I pick E.

E compares native speakers of Tarahumara to the Spanish; a culture that does not distinguish colors red/blue with a culture that does. If culture ( and by extension, its linguistic limitation) is not to have a bearing on color perception, then the people of Tarahumara should be able to distinguish the difference between blue and green. This is not the case. Further, this impairment does not affect the Spanish, whose language does differentiate between the two colors.

My initial pick was C. But "object that would be called yellow" left me with a little skepticism. Are things that are called 'yellow' necessarily yellow? Like 'yellow' fever for example? Since C talks of a cultures that only employ 3 color groups, we have no idea how they will perceive yellow. More reason to doubt C.

E sounds better.

I took 147 seconds on this. So I loose anyway :(


Same reasoning for E, though i didn't pay much attention to C because its the only tempting answer choice with " word Culture " ... D i ruled out easily because " Pashto " is my lingo... :wink: ...
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All languages known to have exactly six basic color terms describe the same six colors – black, white, red, green, blue and yellow – corresponding to the primary neural responses revealed in studies of human color perception. In addition, all languages known to have only three basic color terms distinguish among “black,” “white,” and “red.” This evidence shows that the way in which the mind recognizes differences among colored objects is not influenced by culture.

Which of the following, if true, most seriously weakens the argument above?

(A) While languages differ in their number of basic color terms, no language has been conclusively determined to have more than eleven such terms.

(B) Every language contains mechanisms by which speakers who perceive subtle differences in hue can describe those differences.

(C) Among cultures employing only three color terms, the word “red” typically encompasses not only objects that would be called red in English but also those that would be called yellow.

(D) Several languages, such as Vietnamese and Pashto, use a single term to mean both blue and green, but speakers of such languages commonly refer to tree leaves or the sky to resolve ambiguous utterances.

(E) In a study of native speakers of Tarahumara, a language that does not distinguish between blue and green, respondents were less able to identify distinctions among blue and green chips than native speakers of Spanish, which does distinguish between blue and green.


In a more abstract way, we need to approve that different culture will have different ways of using terms to describe basic color

A) this coincides with original argument with one more limitation, tells nothing about "different ways in different culture" - Incorrect
B) "every language" contradicts with our pre-thinking, incorrect
C) this means all cultures with 3 basic terms are acting same, contradicts our pre-thinking, incorrect
D) a tempting one - from a glimpse it sounds like "some culture are acting differently than others", but with a closer look those culture still did the same thing to differentiate 3 basic colors, just using a different term.
E) BINGO, we have "different ways" (some cannot distinguish between blue and green) and "different culture" (Spanish can differentiate)
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