The Reality of Color Is Perception
...colors are ways that stimuli appear to certain kinds of individuals, and at the same time, ways that individuals perceive certain kinds of stimuli. The “adverbialism” comes in because colors are said to be properties of processes rather than things. So instead of treating color words as adjectives (which describe things), we should treat them as adverbs (which describe activities). I eat hurriedly, walk gracelessly, and on a fine day I see the sky bluely!
Philosophers and scientists have long debated the essence of colors, which straddle the truth of the physical world and the subjectivity of an individual's perception. Here, a linguistic middle ground embraces that dual nature.
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