LessonsAccidents: Definition, Categories and the Beginning of the Origination ArgumentQuiz

وقيل: الحمرة والخضرة والصفرة أيضاً، والبواقي بالتركيب
It was also held that redness, greenness, and yellowness are basic, while the remaining colors arise by composition.

One classical view reduces basic colors to two; another adds red, green, and yellow. The distinction is between an allegedly basic color and a derivative color.

These are historical explanations, not modern optics or pigment science. The dispute over basic colors does not undo the immediate point of the argument: color is treated as an accident borne by a colored thing.

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Disagreement about red, green, and yellow

Accidents: Definition, Categories and the Beginning of the Origination Argument

وقيل: الحمرة والخضرة والصفرة أيضاً، والبواقي بالتركيب
It was also held that redness, greenness, and yellowness are basic, while the remaining colors arise by composition.

One classical view reduces basic colors to two; another adds red, green, and yellow. The distinction is between an allegedly basic color and a derivative color.

These are historical explanations, not modern optics or pigment science. The dispute over basic colors does not undo the immediate point of the argument: color is treated as an accident borne by a colored thing.