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There are a number of concepts in model theory - often situated around Hrushovski's amalgamation method (see for instance http://math.univ-lyon1.fr/~wagner/nijmegen.pdf) - which are colorfully named:

My question is, where does this terminology come from? And is there a pattern to it - that is, would it have been as reasonable to call black points "white points" instead, or would that violate some broad convention?

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These colors were supplied by Poizat as an abbreviation. If there was any rationale for the choice of colors it escaped me.

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  • $\begingroup$ Fair enough, although it's a pity - I'd have loved there to be a story behind it. I'll wait to accept this for a bit just to see if someone supplies a different answer. $\endgroup$ Mar 9, 2014 at 3:16

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