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    The Identity View is preferable to the Mereological View ... — Carmelics
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    The Identity View is preferable to the Mereological View as an account of sound perception.

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    • 1.The Identity View and the Mereological View have equal explanatory capacity.
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    • 2.The Identity View resolves the ambiguity of hearing sound and sound sources as both distinct and not wholly distinct events.
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    • 3.Identifying sound with the event source dissolves this ambiguity, whereas the Mereological View does not.
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    • 1.The Mereological View, defended by Nudds, better preserves the phenomenological datum that we hear sounds as properties of their sources, not as identical to source events.
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    • 2.If sounds were identical to source events, the spatial and temporal profile of sounds (traveling, lingering, echoing) would be numerically identical to properties of the source event, which contradicts perceptual experience.
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    • 3.An account that requires revising robust pre-theoretical perceptual data has a higher explanatory burden than one that accommodates them, undermining the Identity View's claimed preference.
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    • 1.Casati and Dokic's distal theory establishes that sounds are located at their sources but are distinct medium-dependent particulars, not source events, grounding a genuine ontological alternative.
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    • 2.The Identity View's dissolution of source-sound ambiguity is ad hoc if it achieves parsimony only by collapsing a distinction that acoustic physics and auditory neuroscience treat as explanatorily indispensable.
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    The Identity View and the Mereological View have an equal explanatory capacity, but the Identity View, in addition to the metaphysical reduction, seems to untangle the ambiguity of hearing sound and sound sources as two different events and, at the same time, of hearing them as not wholly distinct. This ambiguity evaporates if we identify sound with the event source.
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