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>so if we had no words for green even tho our eyes detect it distinctly from other colors, then we wouldn't be seeing green? how would it look to us? other color? which one? or would we see it as gray?
You see the same color, but you call it "blue" or something like that. The names are invented, there are no "7 colors of the rainbow", it's all made up and it depends on how you use them and the need you may have to differentiate them. They are just wavelengths, how we perceive them and categorize them is up to us.

Someone who is not into colors all that much may call both a magenta and a vermillion "red". If you're looking for someone in a crowd in a magenta shirt you just say "he is wearing red". That should work, it won't be confused for blue or yellow. But if you are mixing paint you must know the difference between a magenta, a red and a vermillion.

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