 Being an error theory of visual experience, Color Eliminativism is sometimes thought to leave us with a severe problem (see Byrne &amp; Hilbert 2007a). If there are no properties that satisfy the requirements for being colors: how did the ordinary concept develop? A plausible answer to this problem is found in the fact that the way that the concepts of color operate, to serve their various functions and roles, is through the way colors appear. For these purposes and roles, objects do not need to have colors. It will be sufficient if they appear to have them. For these purposes, it is sufficient that “it is as if they have the colors”. We should also bear in mind that errors and illusions and misrepresentations can be beneficial and not deleterious, especially if the errors are systematic. Consider, for example, the highly useful illusions that mirrors produce. Part of the point of Projectivist theories of color experience is that the errors are systematic ones. Putting it crudely, tomatoes give us, regularly the same kind of error, just as bananas give us their distinctive kind of error. Angela Mendelovici has developed an account of reliable misrepresentation. Interestingly, she argues that one of the objections to tracking theories of representation, favored by Reductive Color Physicalists, is that they cannot explain reliable misrepresentation.