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Mixing the primary pigments of blue and red produces a purple hued pigment that may be called "violet." However, mixing the primaries of blue and red light yields a lighter (more pinkish) hue called "magenta." Notice, please, that human's eye may distinguish millions of colours but only, probably, few hundreds of them have been taking place in the English and so in my language, and so on - so to say have been taking focal points in our labelization of the world's phenomena. And all people see world slightly different - what is purely "red" or "blue" for you may differ from my perceiving of them (not speaking about culture differences at which I has just hinted: for one example, some peoples of the Far-Eastern Asia are said not to distinguish between "blue" and "green" - there are one term for the both). Probably, yes, red + blue are magenta, or violet, or purple, or crimson, or cherry, . However, the names of "violet" and "magenta" in the context of pigments and light, refer to specific frequency ranges of light that are invariant regardless of individual differences in the use of language or perceptive acuity. Nothing is objective all is subjective and relative. Of course, there are norms in perception to which the majority belong. Still one may mix the conventionally agreed upon "primaries of blue and red light " and say violet is obtained while the majority would object: no, the magenta. Of course, were one to do that, one would be obscuring the meaning and understanding of the words one uses which depend on commonality and shared contexts.

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