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    Challenges→Event theories must classify experiences of echoes and recorded sounds as illusory in order to remain consistent.

    Recorded playback generates a numerically distinct but qualitatively authentic sound event at the speaker, so the listener veridically perceives that new event, not an absent original.

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    • 1.Sound is a physical phenomenon (pressure waves). Speaker output creates genuinely new pressure waves, making it a real event, not mere representation.
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    • 2.Veridical perception requires only accurate awareness of present phenomena. Listener correctly perceives actual speaker output occurring now.
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    • 3.Numerical distinctness matters ontologically: two events with different spatiotemporal locations are genuinely different events, not the same event twice.
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    • 1.Qualitative authenticity requires intentional fidelity to an original. The speaker output's meaning and identity depend on reproducing the source event.
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    • 2.Veridical perception of recorded playback involves perceiving *through* the speaker to the original performance, not perceiving the speaker output itself.
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    • 3.Numerical distinctness doesn't eliminate perceptual mediation. Photographs create new light patterns, yet we perceive the absent photographed object, not the photo.
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    Key Terms

    Qualitatively authentic(as used in aesthetics and epistemology)
    Having the same qualities or characteristics as the original—so similar in all the ways that matter that it's genuinely that thing, not a fake or degraded copy.
    Veridically perceives(as used in epistemology (the study of knowledge and perception))
    To perceive something in a way that is truthful and accurate—you're actually experiencing what's really there, not being tricked or mistaken.
    epistemology(Contrasted with purely descriptive scientific inquiry)
    A normative enterprise that tells us how we ought to reason from evidence and how we ought to justify our beliefs, as distinct from merely describing how we do reason or justify beliefs
    numerically distinct(Used to characterize the parts of the Form that must exist separately in each participant)
    Being distinct in the sense of being different individual tokens, not merely different in kind or quality.
    sound event(as contrasted with causal origin)
    The actual experience or occurrence of hearing a sound in a particular place and time, separate from whatever caused it.

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