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    It is not the case that Loudness is a property of the thwack, not of the sound itself.

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    • 1.Perceptual experience systematically attributes loudness to sounds as heard, not to the events producing them.
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    • 2.A theory of sound properties that contradicts the phenomenological structure of auditory experience bears a significant explanatory burden.
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    • 3.Casati and Dokic's wave-based account locates loudness in the amplitude of pressure waves, making it intrinsic to the sound itself.
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    • 1.Auditory constancy phenomena, such as perceiving a sound as equally loud despite distance variation, presuppose loudness as a stable property of the sound.
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    • 2.Perceptual constancy mechanisms track mind-independent properties of distal objects, so loudness constancy implies loudness belongs to the sound, not the thwack.
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    • 1.Kulvicki's dispositional theory cannot account for the intuition that sounds have loudness.
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    • 2.The theory treats loudness as a property not of the sound but of the thwacking action.
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