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    Event theories must classify experiences of echoes and recorded sounds as illusory in order to remain consistent.

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    • 1.Event theories hold that sounds are bearers of acoustic properties located where we experience them to be located, namely distally.
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    • 2.If sound is located at its own source and an echo seems to be a sound not perceived at its source, then hearing an echo involves hallucinating a sound.
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    • 3.When hearing recorded sound, the bearer of acoustic properties that we hear as distally located is distinct from the original bearer of acoustic properties.
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    • 1.Event theories can locate sounds at the medium through which they propagate, not merely at their causal origin, making echoes veridical perceptions of distinct acoustic events.
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    • 2.An echo is a genuine sound event occurring in the air between reflective surface and listener, so perceiving it distally is accurate, not illusory.
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    • 3.The claim conflates the source of a sound's causal origin with the location of the sound event itself, a distinction O'Callaghan explicitly defends in 'Sounds: A Philosophical Theory'.
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    • 1.Recorded playback generates a numerically distinct but qualitatively authentic sound event at the speaker, so the listener veridically perceives that new event, not an absent original.
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    • 2.Illusory perception requires that no appropriate distal bearer of properties exists, but a functioning loudspeaker constitutes exactly such a bearer at the perceived location.
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    • 3.Casati and Dokic's wave-based event ontology entails that reproduction technology produces real sound events, dissolving the alleged illusory classification without abandoning event theory.
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    Soteriou (2018) claims that both versions of the event theory are too strict about what they count as sounds: the Located Event Theory counts as sounds only monadic events happening at material objects; the Relational Event Theory, instead, admits only relational events that are bearers of acoustic properties. Soteriou challenges the assumption that sounds are one kind of thing and suggests that the sounds we hear are both pure audibilia (such as the barking of a dog), which are events or act-ty
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