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Originally Posted by amicus_curiae
Oh, but black is a color — just try pairing a black suit with a black shirt, a black tie, black socks and shoes: Impossible because of the many shades of black. I know of no earthly substances that can be seen without the reflection of light or that produce illuminance.
Oh, I think that languages are full of words that things that name nothingness. Don’t think of ‘void’ so stringently! Even space — outer space where there be dragons — we’re now discovering isn’t the void that we believed it to be 1-years ago!
(And then there are fools like me who, hearing the word void, think first of contracts.)
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While I agree that black is by definition a color, science deems it to be otherwise: Black, technically, is the absence of color. I still find this a strange concept because growing up I did a lot of painting plaster and the more colors I added to a paint mixture, the more like black it became.
As far as thinking of
void in such 'stringent' terms, that's my OCPD for you. Rules are rules, logic is logic, and that is all. (Honestly, though, I should reconsider things because my reliance upon rules and logic is getting worse and worse the more I try to better my psych symptoms.)
And don't think you're so alone with the odd word associations. My entire life is an amalgamation of odd word associations. The first thing that comes to my mind when I hear the word 'void' is a voided check. (I can never keep straight in my head the numbers on a check that are the routing vs. account numbers... Thus I have a check in my wallet that has VOID written on it and then color-coordinated brackets labeling which set of number is which.)