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    Kulvicki's dispositional theory accounts for distal intuitions about sounds, particularly the role of action in producing auditory information about objects.

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    • 1.Most objects produce sound because agents deliberately impart a thwack on them.
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    • 2.When an agent hears a sound, the agent gains knowledge of the elastic resistance an object opposes to thwacking.
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    • 3.The more an object reacts to thwacking, the more sonorous the object is.
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    • 1.Casey O'Callaghan argues that sounds are particular events or processes located at their sources, not dispositions of objects to resist manipulation.
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    • 2.Dispositional properties are general and repeatable features of objects, whereas sounds are unrepeatable dated particulars—making the ontological category mismatch a foundational objection.
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    • 3.Kulvicki's account conflates the causal basis for sound production with the ontological nature of sound itself, committing a category error that echoes debates in philosophy of color.
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    • 1.Many significant sound sources—thunder, wind, flowing water—are produced without any deliberate agent imparting a thwack, undermining the action-centered account.
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    • 2.A dispositional theory grounded in thwacking cannot generalize to natural sounds, revealing it as a parochial account of artifact perception rather than a theory of sound.
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    Kulvicki’s dispositional theory neatly accounts for some distal intuitions about sounds. (Other intuitions, such as the idea that sound have a loudness, are beyond the descriptive power of the theory, that on that score considers loudness as a property not of the sound, but of the thwack). In particular it highlights the importance of action in bringing about auditory information about an object: most objects sound because we deliberately impart a thwack on them, and in many cases in which we wa
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