Maybe it would help if I said that atoms are non-fundamentally colored, in exactly the same way that a chair, or grass, or the sky is non-fundamentally colored
That may be true, but it isn’t a refutation of the claim that “when the reductive explanation of property P hits its basic level, property P is no longer found”, because atoms are not “fundamental things”, not the basis of the reductive explanation of matter: electrons and photons are.
Even a free electron (being a thing that scatters light) has a color
What colour is an electron? There is no answer to the question “what is the colour of an electron”, because electrons are basic in the reductive explanation of colour. How an electron scatters photons is behaviour that depends on context.
If you cover a brown chair with blue paint, it becomes a blue chair. There is no answer to the question “What color is a chair?”, because how a chair scatters light depends on context.
Chairs are non-fundamentally colored, so the only question you can even try to answer is “What color is this chair?”
Y’all are trying to rely on a dichotomy between “Fundamental particles are fundamentally colored” and “Fundamental particles have no color.” That is a false dichotomy. The color of an electron depends on context—congrats, you have shown that it is not fundamentally colored, we agree.
That may be true, but it isn’t a refutation of the claim that “when the reductive explanation of property P hits its basic level, property P is no longer found”, because atoms are not “fundamental things”, not the basis of the reductive explanation of matter: electrons and photons are.
What colour is an electron? There is no answer to the question “what is the colour of an electron”, because electrons are basic in the reductive explanation of colour. How an electron scatters photons is behaviour that depends on context.
If you cover a brown chair with blue paint, it becomes a blue chair. There is no answer to the question “What color is a chair?”, because how a chair scatters light depends on context.
Chairs are non-fundamentally colored, so the only question you can even try to answer is “What color is this chair?”
Y’all are trying to rely on a dichotomy between “Fundamental particles are fundamentally colored” and “Fundamental particles have no color.” That is a false dichotomy. The color of an electron depends on context—congrats, you have shown that it is not fundamentally colored, we agree.
Who are you arguing against? Do Nozick or Hanson say that anything is fundamentally coloured?