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Sounds are the objects of auditory experience. They are the individual things that we can attend to in auditory experience. These objects of auditory experience instantiate the acoustic properties of pitch, loudness, and timbre. They appear to be individual things in which these acoustic properties inhere. They do not appear to be properties of material objects in the way that, say, colours appear to be properties of material objects (I say more about this below); nor do they appear to be parts of material objects.
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For an extended defense of this claim, see O’Callaghan (2007, ch. 2).
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Of course to say that sounds do not appear to be properties of, or parts of, material objects doesn’t mean that they are not; just that they don’t appear to be. Similarly to say that the appearance of sounds is determined by acoustic properties doesn’t mean that they don’t also have non-acoustic properties.
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Nudds, M. (2014). Commentary on Leddington. In: Brown, R. (eds) Consciousness Inside and Out: Phenomenology, Neuroscience, and the Nature of Experience. Studies in Brain and Mind, vol 6. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6001-1_23
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