Event theories of sound are false

Nudds (2018) challenges both event theories by virtue of “the argument from the medium” which is elaborated to show that environmental events are not the bearers of acoustic features (2018: 54). The main premise of the argument, the existence premise, states that we can hear a sound without the occurrence of an environmental event. This premise can be used against both event theories, which claim that sounds are either identical to environmental events or to parts of such events (2018: 67). Nudd