. A system of psychology. rposed as in fig. 1. Let onepatch of light be of each of the three fundamentalcolors, and let the intensity of each patch be maxi-mal at its centre, falling off gradually to zero at theedge. We have then in the triangle of which N isthe centre (leaving now out of account all the un- ^The three-color theory in the five-sensation form has beengiven an evolutionary setting by Mrs. Franklin, who assumesthat gray is the primitive color phylogenetically; that in thesecond stage of development yellow and blue arise by a dif-ferentiation of the gray-process^ into two new proc


. A system of psychology. rposed as in fig. 1. Let onepatch of light be of each of the three fundamentalcolors, and let the intensity of each patch be maxi-mal at its centre, falling off gradually to zero at theedge. We have then in the triangle of which N isthe centre (leaving now out of account all the un- ^The three-color theory in the five-sensation form has beengiven an evolutionary setting by Mrs. Franklin, who assumesthat gray is the primitive color phylogenetically; that in thesecond stage of development yellow and blue arise by a dif-ferentiation of the gray-process^ into two new processes,and that in the third stage red and green arise by a differ-entiation of the yellow-process. SENSATION QUALITY 63 superposed and two-ply parts) all the colors, rang-ing from the full hues along the boundaries, throughpaler tints, to neutral gray or white near the representation introduces us at once to acharacteristic of color sensations which is desig-nated saturation, A color is said to be saturated in.


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