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now one of these moments and now another may be the basis of his 

 judgment. " One could often hear a native saying kakekakek to 

 himself as he picked up a colorless wool to place with the green," 

 i. e., with Holmgren's apple-green test wool.*^ Rivers regards the 

 " natural tendency to put together all the wools to which the same 

 name was given " as a fallacy of nomenclature.**' It looks rather 

 as if the native varied the basis of his comparison from hue to tint 

 and chroma. For " the same name " is not applied to different 

 colors without a reason. 



The actual " matches " are as follows :*'^ 



Test Wool. Matched Wools. 



Holmgren's red reds, saturated pinks. 



Bright green greens, often blue-greens, occasionallj' almost 



pure blues. 



Holmgren's purple "very readily matched by all, though the ma- 

 jority refused to take pink wools if much 

 less saturated." 



Holmgren's apple green "matched correctly by the majority," often 



" with bluish or violet wools of about the 

 same saturation," by 7 with " neutral wools 

 with a faint pinkish tinge." 



Yellow " matched correctly by nearly all," by 2 men 



and 5 children with reddish wools, by i 

 man and 3 boys with blue wools. 



Blue matched by 27 (out of 107) " with violet as 



well as with blue or bluish green wools," by 

 I man with an almost colorless wool, by i 

 man with a brown and with a yellow wool. 



Violet " matched or compared by 12 with neutral 



wools and by 14 with distinctly reddish or 

 pinkish wools," by i boy with a brown wool, 

 and by the chief (who called all kake- 

 kakek) with a B and a G wool of about the 

 same saturation. 



The only facts that claim particular attention, after our foregoing 

 study of the color vocabulary, are (i) the confusion of yellow with 



*= R, 49- 



*6 R, 49 f ., 93. Here is a chance for the obverse fallacy : my observer 

 2 (f.) gives marking-pencil for BV Shade i and for Spectral OR. We hap- 

 pen to know that examiners use differently-colored pencils ; but suppose that 

 the vocabulary was strange to us, and that we found the same object called 

 BV and OR! 



47 R, 50. 



