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    The Identity View's dissolution of source-sound ambiguity... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→The Identity View is preferable to the Mereological View as an account of sound perception.

    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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    Ad hoc(general philosophy (criticism of arguments))
    A solution or explanation created just to fix one specific problem, rather than being part of a coherent overall theory.
    Collapsing a distinction(logical analysis)
    Failing to keep apart two different ideas or categories that should remain separate; treating different things as if they're the same.
    Identity View(Philosophy of perception / metaphysics of sound)
    The position that sound is identical with its event source, i.e., sound is metaphysically reduced to the source event.
    Source-sound ambiguity(as used in philosophy of perception)
    The problem of not being able to tell whether you're explaining something based on where a sound comes from versus what the sound itself is like.
    explanatorily indispensable

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    (Used as the criterion scientific realists apply to determine which posits warrant realist commitment)
    Indispensable to scientific theories in a specific way — namely, by contributing to scientific explanations
    parsimony(Used by both Tomasello & Call and Povinelli & Vonk to justify mutually incompatible conclusions)
    A criterion of explanatory simplicity favoring hypotheses that posit fewer entities, capacities, or rules to account for the same data.

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