what is blue?

Question

oh jeez
not what things are blue!
what is "blue"
philosophise with me!

Answer 1

IT IS A RANGE OF EMOTIONS FROM HAPPY BLUE SKIES TO FEELING BLUE...SAD.

Answer 2

If you were to teach a child on an island with no other human interaction other than you and the child, taught him/her that the color that is traditionally orange was blue and was never taught otherwise, that child would therefore believe traditional orange was actually blue.
Therefore, blue is a product of conditioning, not actuality, for we could be calling what actualy is black blue, and know no different due to how we were conditioned.

Answer 3

It has been philosophized (is that a word? Well it is now!) that blue is merely a human interpretation. For example, if everything was the same shade of blue, we would have no understanding of either the notion of 'color' or the notion of 'blue'. Therefore, in philosophical terms, blue is merely a construct; a human attempt to denfine the meaningless. D@mn, is all philosophy so depressing?

Answer 4

I think blue connotes feelings of loneliness and sorrow. On the other hand, it could mean a bright hope looking at the blue skies. Blue for me is the the most elegant color.

Answer 5

It is a word made up of 4 letters, namely B L U & E. together they discribe the interpretation the human brain makes of a specific wave length of light striking the retina at the back of the eye. These letters also discribe the feeling of sadness one feels, say, when ones football team loses an important game, or ones dog dies. The word is often miss-spelt, especially by French people.

Answer 6

Blue is noble, aristocracy, good communication (in Chakra theory), pure&unpolluted(look at the sky, the sea!), blue is also toil&hard work, honesty: and, the third level from top, after violet(purple) and indigo! The blue-eyed and the blue-blooded are special!

Answer 7

Blue is eternity, as Henri Matisse once said "A bit of blue is a bit of blue but a swathe takes you into the heavens"

Answer 8

The hue of that portion of the visible spectrum lying between green and indigo, evoked in the human observer by radiant energy with wavelengths of approximately 420 to 490 nanometers; any of a group of colors that may vary in lightness and saturation, whose hue is that of a clear daytime sky; one of the additive or light primaries; one of the psychological primary hues.


At the point of extreme exasperation

At a far distance; into the unknown

From an unexpected or unforeseen source

At a completely unexpected time

low in spirits; "lonely and blue in a strange city"; "depressed by the loss of his job"; "a dispirited and resigned expression on her face"; "downcast after his defeat"; "feeling discouraged and downhearted"

characterized by profanity or cursing; "foul-mouthed and blasphemous"; "blue language"; "profane words"

belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy; "an aristocratic family"; "aristocratic Bostonians"; "aristocratic government"; "a blue family"; "blue blood"; "the blue-blooded aristocracy"; "of gentle blood"; "patrician landholders of the American South"; "aristocratic bearing"; "aristocratic features"; "patrician tastes"

Answer 9

Without meaning given to it by a human, "blue" is just an empty set of 4 letters.

Answer 10

Blue is the color of heaven. Blue is cool and beautiful.

B elieve in a L ife that is U seful for E veryone

In other words be BLUE!!!

Answer 11

Blue is a "sense datum".

Basically, not a "thing" but thing that an object "is".

I would go into more detail, but I beleive that you need to read it yourself, if only to understand the concept. When i was doing my degree, it took one or two readings to underdstand the entirety of it.

Edit: Barry l said it correctly. I'm glad to see a fellow graduate of "the love of wisdom" : )