... of anything, not the colour of any body, but just unattached pure white, out there, 'itself by itself. To go on talking like that, Aristotle now says, is not only unhelpful and unexplanatory, it is meaningless nonsense talk. We cannot refer to pure unattached whiteness, since white in all our experience is the colour of some body. At this point he gets rather rude with Plato and brusquely ...

... of anything, not the colour of any body, but just unattached pure white, out there, 'itself by itself. To go on talking like that, Aristotle now says, is not only unhelpful and unexplanatory, it is meaningless nonsense talk. We cannot refer to pure unattached whiteness, since white in all our experience is the colour of some body. At this point he gets rather rude with Plato and brusquely ...