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    It is not the case that The Identity View is preferable to the Mereological View as an account of sound perception.

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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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    • 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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