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    Challenges→Sounds possess the strong spatial property of locatedness, not merely the weaker property of directionality.

    In most cases, listeners can distinguish a soft sound nearby from a loud sound far away.

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    Second, the requirement of fidelity to auditory content may be challenged by questioning the phenomenological claim that motivates it. The move would consist in suggesting that sounds do not have the strong spatial property of locatedness, but the weaker property of directionality. The distinction between two senses of “locatedness” in relation to sounds can be traced back to Malpas (1965), based on ordinary language arguments, and is echoed in Urmson (1968) and Hacker (1987: 102 ff.); cf. O’Sha

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