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    It is not the case that Sounds are not one single kind of thing.

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    • 1.All candidate sound-types—wave events, property instances, audibilia—can be unified under a single relational ontology as disturbances in a medium relative to a perceiver.
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    • 2.The apparent heterogeneity of sounds reflects differences in descriptions or contexts of individuation, not genuine ontological plurality.
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    • 3.Casey O'Callaghan's own framework in 'Sounds: A Philosophical Theory' grounds all sounds as events in the medium, suggesting theoretical unity is achievable without remainder.
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    • 1.The argument from acoustic property-disconnection conflates a sound's intrinsic nature with its causal history, a distinction Aristotle's hylomorphic account of sound already navigates without positing kind-plurality.
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    • 2.Sounds perceived via non-auditory modalities (e.g., tactile vibration) are better classified as cross-modal representations of the same event-kind, not evidence of a distinct sound-kind.
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    • 1.Some sounds are pure audibilia bearing acoustic properties that can be disconnected from their material causes.
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    • 2.Some sounds are events or act-types that can lack acoustic properties and are perceivable by modalities other than audition.
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