pigment n. A substance used as coloring. Dry coloring matter, usually an insoluble powder, to be mixed with water, oil, or another base to produce. So the worlds Pigment and paint are interchangable really....so absorbtion / reflection are opposite sides of the same coin... light is never white, your eye has receptors for red green and blue (excluding the Mono receptors, hence the K in CMYK).... it takes all three to make white.... I think we're arguing the same point from different perspectives.... I see it from the light perspective, you see it from the absorb / reflect perspective. It seems we're arguing the oposite of each other, but we are in fact agreeing strongly!