Talk:The Missing Shade of Blue

I am surprised that this has been marked for speedy deletion for being a very short article. It doesn't seem that short to me. Philosophyclass HSOG (talk) 23:36, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Article needs work, but could have potential. Mjroots (talk) 23:56, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Though, it appears a lot of it is based on personal research. Nwwaew (Talk Page) (Contribs) (E-mail me) 00:07, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
 * I'm wouldn't want to claim much originality here. All I have tried to do is to pull together the various comments made by other commentators on a topic that all students of Hume will have come across but for which there seems to be no easily accessible online article.Philosophyclass HSOG (talk) 00:28, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

Why is this written like a paper for a class? Why does it introduce criteria for "solving" Hume's missing shade thought experiment? I'm not saying the argument is or isn't convincing, but a Wikipedia article should definitely not be persuading me that this or the other professional philosopher "fails to deal" with David Hume. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.192.174.243 (talk) 02:13, 15 December 2009 (UTC)

I don't see the problem. The noticeable presence of a missing shade is still made evident by impression; we notice that the colors advance according to a certain pattern. It would be not much different to a pattern of numbers, no? It's hard to theorize a person who didn't know of the existence of the number six, but if a group of sticks were put forward, each group ascending by one stick in number, with six sticks omitted, the impression would be garnered that something is missing by our experience of patterns. TeChNoWC (talk) 05:12, 9 October 2012 (UTC)