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    It is not the case that Event theories must classify experiences of echoes and recorded sounds as illusory in order to remain consistent.

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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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    • 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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