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by subb 418 days ago
No, they are all constructed, including blue.

If I shine some wavelength to your eyeball and you say "it looks blue", but then I change the surrounding and now it looks white, I don't think you would conclude that the original wavelength is blue.

We have a many examples like this, which prescribe that vision is not at all an accurate wavelength measurement device.