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    Wave theorists typically fail to be faithful to auditory ... — Carmelics
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    Wave theorists typically fail to be faithful to auditory content.

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    • 1.Perceptual phenomenology reveals sounds as distal objects located at their sources, not as propagating wave-fronts moving through intervening space.
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    • 2.Casey O'Callaghan's work on auditory objects shows that auditory experience presents sounds as persisting at stable locations, incompatible with the wave theory's traveling disturbances.
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    • 3.A theory faithful to auditory content must account for the phenomenal fact that we hear the violin as sounding there, not as a wave arriving here.
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    • 1.Roberto Casati and Jerome Dokic's distal theory holds that sounds are events at their sources, grounding why auditory localization systematically tracks source locations rather than medium states.
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    • 2.If wave theorists were faithful to auditory content, they would need to explain why listeners never phenomenally experience the intervening medium as the locus of the sound, which wave theory predicts they should.
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    • 1.Auditory content presents sounds as located at or near their source.
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    • 2.The wave theory holds that sounds are waves propagating through a medium, not located at their source.
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    • 3.The same textbook on sounds may simultaneously endorse a medial, a proximal, and a distal theory, indicating theoretical inconsistency.
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    Wave theorists typically give up the requirement that an account of sound be faithful to auditory content (although they would not typically acknowledge this; as Pasnau 1999 has remarked, the very same textbook on sounds may simultaneously endorse a medial, a proximal and a distal theory). However, wave theorists may also try to reconcile auditory content with the wave conception. Sorensen (2008) proposes for instance that it is not a purely auditory phenomenon that we do sometimes identify and
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