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    It is not the case that What we hear when experiencing the Doppler effect is a vibration process in a sounding object, not sound waves in the medium

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    • 1.The Doppler effect is a relational property of wave propagation in a medium, not an intrinsic property of the vibrating object itself.
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    • 2.Perceiving a relational property constituted by medium, source, and observer geometry cannot be reduced to perceiving one relatum of that relation.
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    • 3.Therefore, hearing the Doppler shift is hearing a wave-medium phenomenon, not the vibration process alone.
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    • 1.On Helmholtz's and later psychoacoustic accounts, pitch perception is determined by the frequency of pressure waves arriving at the ear, not source vibration frequency.
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    • 2.In the Doppler effect, the arriving wave frequency diverges from the source vibration frequency, and it is the arriving frequency that determines what the listener hears.
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    • 3.What is heard is therefore constituted by properties of the sound wave at the point of reception, undermining the claim that perception tracks only the sounding object's vibration.
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    • 1.The movement of the sounding object causes, among other things, the Doppler effect
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    • 2.The Doppler effect can be described as a perspectival shortening of the vibration process in the sounding object
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    • 3.Hearing the Doppler effect does not require hearing anything different from the vibration process in the sounding object
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