Re: Color

["Spagna Jr., George" <gspagna@RMC.EDU>]

Leigh Palmer wrote:

-----Original Message-----
From: Leigh Palmer [mailto:palmer@SFU.CA]
Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2000 8:42 PM


> White is any one of many discernibly different colors having that name.
> To demonstrate this to an eighth grader the teacher should first equip
> herself with two or three sheets of differently colored white paper.
> She should then ask the student what color each paper is, presenting
> them one at a time. It will then be easy to demonstrate that they
> differ in color from one another.

My house used to have pale beige siding.  My younger daughter always
insisted that it was a white house.  When confronted with white paper as a
contrast, she still insisted that the house was white!  BTW - she now drives
a white car, and we both agree that it's white!

We solved the "house color problem" by installing new, gray siding!

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