Realism contextual

A6.5.8.2 To maximize realism, an in-site label attached to a container will be used. To attach a different label to each container may pose an unnecessary burden on the tester, so it is proposed that the label be attached to a standard container, and removed after testing. This procedure may require an assistant to the interviewer if overly burdensome for the interviewer. It is important that every visual cue be offered to subjects to maximise their possibilities of comprehension, particularly for workers with low levels of formal education who rely on contextual information to a greater degree. Therefore, the labels should be presented attached to container at all times. A Velcro strip attached to the container may make the procedure relatively simple. 

Whatever the ultimate connection— if any at all—between shape and color, we do now have two properties that vary under different conditions. One has been traditionally considered as primary, the other as secondary. Whether such contextualization and conditionalization of all properties will be needed is an open question I think we need not insist on space, time, mass, sound, or taste following the same sort of account pursued here. But whatever the upshot for the other properties, the account does have consequences for certain views about properties and their role in metaphysical systems. I have remarked that Putnam s and Lewis s realisms must be modified to take the contextual nature of shape into account. 

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