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    It is not the case that Wave theorists can reconcile auditory content with the wave conception by locating sounds at their center of origin rather than throughout the medium.

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    • 1.Epistemic localization of earthquakes is a pragmatic convention, not a metaphysical claim about where the earthquake exists.
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    • 2.Sounds, unlike earthquakes, are perceived as spatially distributed along their path of travel, making origin-localization phenomenologically revisionary.
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    • 3.A theory of auditory content must answer to perceptual phenomenology first; conventions borrowed from geology carry no phenomenological authority.
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    • 1.If waves genuinely constitute sounds, then sounds exist wherever the wave exists, and locating them at their origin contradicts the wave ontology itself.
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    • 2.O'Callaghan's proximal wave theory entails that the sound one hears is numerically identical to the wave impinging on one's ear, not the distant origin point.
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    • 1.Earthquakes are epistemically localized at their hypocenter even though they are not ontologically located only at their hypocenter.
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    • 2.An earthquake exists everywhere it can be felt or measured, yet we identify its location as its center.
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    • 3.Analogously, sounds as waves in a medium can be located at their center or origin without contradiction.
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