Help with an explaination?

Question

How do i describe the color blue to this blind person when theyve been blind their whole life.

Answer 1

you can't

Answer 2

refer to it as an emotion and what it means to you.

Answer 3

Well It's a little difficult to explain to them anything relating to colours really. I suppose you could give examples of things that are blue like the sky.

It's a sort of a philosophical question really. How do you explain to anyone what the colour blue is? You can't define it.

My philosophy teacher once asked me the same question

Answer 4

I guess you would have to somehow explain sight first by comparing it to the other 4 senses that they understand. Then explain the different colors by comparing it to how the nose detects different smells, the hands feel different textures, etc... and the eyes see different colors. Don't know if they could understand it any better than that.