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

    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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    • 1.Natural sounds like thunder result from physical forces (pressure waves, atmospheric discharge) without intentional agent causation.
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    • 2.An action-centered account requiring deliberate agency cannot explain the majority of auditory phenomena humans actually encounter.
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    • 3.Sound production mechanisms in nature operate identically whether caused by agents or natural forces, suggesting agency is not essential to sound.
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    • 1.The action-centered account need not require conscious intent—physical impacts (wind hitting surfaces) still constitute actions in a broader sense.
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    • 2.Natural forces like wind and water are not truly 'without agents'; they are agents themselves producing mechanical effects through force transfer.
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    • 3.Distinguishing intentional from non-intentional sound sources is conceptually different from denying both involve causal action-producing sound.
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