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Full Idea
Do we really understand the proposal that we have as many colour concepts as there are shades colour that we can sensibly discriminate?
Gist of Idea
We have far fewer colour concepts than we have discriminations of colour
Source
Gareth Evans (The Varieties of Reference [1980], 7.5)
Book Ref
Evans,Gareth: 'The Varieties of Reference' [OUP 2002], p.229
A Reaction
This is the argument (rejected by McDowell) that experience cannot be conceptual because experience is too rich. We should not confuse lack of concepts with lack of words. I may have a concept of a colour between two shades, but no word for it.