2007-12-21 01:34:59 · 65 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Yes, duh. Just because no one's listening to it, doesn't mean it's not making a sound and being heard by forest animals.
2007-12-21 01:38:29 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes it does. Here's the proof: if a recording device was left nearby, the sound would leave a recording on it. Suppose it was never listened to or detected in any other way. You would then have to assume that there was nothing on the recording. Clearly there would be. The recording could be listened to at any time. If it was, the fact that there was a sound of a tree falling on the recording would then have caused the tree to make a sound in the past, but causation doesn't work in that direction. Therefore, the tree made a sound when it fell.
2007-12-21 10:23:22 · answer #2 · answered by grayure 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What kind of a question is that? Really what do you think? The trees only fall and make noise when people are around? "Oh look, there's a person, I'm going to fall over dead and make a ton of noise."
What grade did you say you were in....I'm sorry, maybe you are a little kid. In that case yes, trees make noise.
2007-12-21 01:42:16 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why does a falling tree in the forest make noise when we are there to hear it?
2007-12-21 01:38:01 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well unless trees are in desperate need of attention when humans are around, they probably still make a noise when no is there to hear it.
Are you suggesting that the trees are alive and do things for attention?
2007-12-23 03:59:17 · answer #5 · answered by Love and Happiness 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Say we were around the tree when it fell we would hear the sound. But what is sound? What is matter by the way? I don't believe we can really say one way or another what will happen. The only information we have we gain through our empirical senses and we use our thoughts to come about deductions from them. Of courses there are ideas but they are also tainted by human perspective. Even our thoughts and how they work is elusive to us.
2007-12-21 21:19:51 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sure. The noise generated by the tree falling is generated regardless of whether anyone can hear it or not. Why wouldn't it be?
2007-12-21 01:39:27 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Despite human arrogance we are not the only hearing creatures something will have recorded the fall of the tree.
2007-12-21 19:13:57 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Depends on which definition of "sound" you use.
1. sensation produced by organs of hearing
or,
2. Mechanical waves traveling through a medium.
Definition 1: No is the answer
Definition 2: Yes is the answer
2007-12-21 01:42:47 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well not a noise as such,but the pressure waves caused in the air by it's decent to the ground cause a farting noise in the Whitehouse.........oh no, my mistake it's just George opening his mouth again lol
2007-12-21 01:39:47 · answer #10 · answered by Chris P 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes of course.
When somebody telephones my house and there's nobody in to answer it, the phone is still making a ringing noise isn't it?
2007-12-21 08:56:28 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋