# Color Pluralism **Opening (not a real abstract):** Colors are sensible qualities. They are qualities that objects are perceived to have. Thus, when Norm, a normal perceiver, perceives a blue bead, the bead is perceived to have a certain quality, perceived blueness. ‘Quality’, here, is no mere synonym for property; rather, a quality is a kind of property—a qualitative, as opposed to quantitative, property. (The quantitative is a way of contrasting with the qualitative—perhaps not the only way.) Not only does perception present objects as colored, but perception also presents what these colors are like. When Norm perceives a blue bead, not only does he perceive the bead to be blue, but he perceives what blue is like. The qualitative nature of the colors is manifest to us in our perception of them. Objects are perceived to instantiate color properties, and these color properties are perceived to instantiate higher-order **Authors:** [[Mark Eli Kalderon]]