2006-10-03 04:03:26 · 22 answers · asked by Silkie1 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
There are no trees. The wood is a figment of our imaginations. This answer was never written.
2006-10-03 22:36:20 · answer #1 · answered by los 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Okay,a good philosophical question! Answering it, I'd say yes, it still does fall even if there's no one around because a person being there or not being there when it falls doesn't have any rrelavance to it's falling or not falling. It's kinda like people: We do what we want to do regardless of who's around so, a tree will fall if it's meant to fall regardless if a person is there or not.
2006-10-03 11:20:26 · answer #2 · answered by christiefwood 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, the falling tree does not make a sound unless there is someone around capable of hearing. Sound exists only in a hearer's brain. If their is no hearer, there is no sound. Instead, there are only various frequencies of pressure waves in the ambient air. Your brain, via your ears, experiences these pressure waves as sound. Otherwise, they are merely soundless pressure waves.
2006-10-05 10:00:59 · answer #3 · answered by Mike G 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The evidence would be there long after it had fallen so someone would eventully come across it to discover it. If it fell in the first place?
And just maybe the question should have said "did it?" not does it. But "IF" is the real question here?
2006-10-04 03:19:45 · answer #4 · answered by Des 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Does it what? Fall? Your question presupposes that it does. So tell me, if a tree stands tall in a forest and refuses to fall, why does it not? That's more to the point.
2006-10-03 11:11:08 · answer #5 · answered by Seeker 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Heard this all before..its all over the philosophy sits like 15 yeaRS AGO!!
AND BY LAW OF SCIENCE IT DOES MAKE A SOUND, THE ANIMALS WOULD HEAR IT, AND IF THEY DONT THEN IT WILL BE AN UNHEARD SOUND..LIKE THE SCREAMING OF FISHES WHEN THEY ARE PLUCKED OUT OF WATER
2006-10-03 11:19:38 · answer #6 · answered by Chunkylover53 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Presume you saying does it make a noise ??
well, this question a bit like the Chicken and the egg !!!
2006-10-03 11:19:19 · answer #7 · answered by landgirl60 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It does, because there are, most of the times, some life forms.
2006-10-03 11:32:07 · answer #8 · answered by Spiritualseeker 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well if a brick hit you on the head would you say ow (if you wern't knocked out) even if no-one was around. Stupid fecking question if you ask me and as your not......
2006-10-03 11:34:07 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If a man says something in a forest and a woman doesn't hear it is he still wrong?
2006-10-03 16:33:13 · answer #10 · answered by mike j 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋