Philosophical Studies
Volume 108, Numbers 1-2, 213-222, DOI: 10.1023/A:1015736803819

Yes, Virginia, Lemons are Yellow

Alex Byrne

From the issue entitled "Selected Papers Presented in 2001 at the 75th Annual Meeting of the Pacific Division of the American Philosophical Association"

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Abstract

This paper discusses a number of themes and arguments in The Quest for Reality: Stroud's distinction between ldquophilosophicalrdquo and ldquoordinaryrdquo questions about reality; the similarity he finds between the view that coloris ldquounrealrdquo and the view that it is ldquosubjectiverdquo; his argument against thesecondary quality theory; his argument against the error theory; and the ldquodisappointingrdquo conclusion of the book.

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