If a tree falls in the woods and no ones there to hear it, does it still make a sound?
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If a tree falls in the woods and no ones there to hear it, does it still make a sound?
Yes.
Close, only half of them do.
What if it's a Tuesday?
If you are passed out drunk in the forest when the tree falls down? ;) ;) ;)
If a man says something and there is no woman around to hear him, is he still wrong?
Over a period of about a century, I think a lot of time was wasted on the original question by philosophers who should have spent the time on more important issues.
It was finally decided that it was a definiton or semantics problem.
If sound is defined as a perceptual process, there is no sound when there is no creature to hear it.
If sound is defined as a physical process (molecular motion, compression waves, et cetera), then there is sound without a listener.