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    It is not the case that Sound waves are not sounds merely because sound waves are responsible for the perceptual difficulty in locating sounds.

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    • 1.The deviant path of sound waves in echoes is responsible for the perceptual difficulty in locating sounds.
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    • 2.Responsibility for a perceptual effect does not entail identity with the perceived object.
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    • 1.Casati and Dokic's distal theory holds that sounds are located at their sources, not in the intervening medium where waves propagate.
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    • 2.If the medium-traveling wave were the sound, then sounds would be located in the air between source and listener, contradicting robust cross-cultural localization intuitions.
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    • 3.A causal intermediary producing perceptual difficulty is not thereby the object of perception, as Grice's causal theory of perception distinguishes the veridical object from its causal chain.
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    • 1.Sounds are individuated by their phenomenal qualities (pitch, timbre, loudness), none of which are intrinsic properties of sound waves as physical disturbances.
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    • 2.If sound waves were sounds, then two distinct sounds sharing identical wave parameters would be numerically identical, violating Leibniz's Law.
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