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I was pretty late in understanding the true philosophical meaning behind this question:
The answer is no, philosophically speaking, because unless we're close enough or near enough to a problem, issue or event to know it is exists or is happening, then we're not going to notice or be aware of it's effects. If we are separated by a water on various continents, and we didn't travel, view media, or read books about those who've travelled to those places, we wouldn't know what's happening. So, if a country on another continent needed help or assistance, we couldn't give it if we didn't know there was a problem and that we could do something about it. Can't help without being informed.
For example, when the earthquake hit Haiti, without news organizations and tourists/civilians travelling across continents to visit, live, or work in Haiti, and unless someone was there to film the story, take pictures, testimony, write reports, and document the happenings, we probably wouldn't know that something occurred, would we? The sound in this case, is a sign of the need and desire to communicate in order to seek help to handle a natural disaster. So, even though someone had to record the sound and travel to another location to let everyone know a tree had fallen, or in other words, that there was an earthquake, then we wouldn't know it happened.
A sound can signify anything which signals that something has occurred which needs to be acknowledged.
So, what are other practical, real world examples of a tree falling in the forest . . . does it make a sound?
If a tree falls in the forest, and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?
The answer is no, philosophically speaking, because unless we're close enough or near enough to a problem, issue or event to know it is exists or is happening, then we're not going to notice or be aware of it's effects. If we are separated by a water on various continents, and we didn't travel, view media, or read books about those who've travelled to those places, we wouldn't know what's happening. So, if a country on another continent needed help or assistance, we couldn't give it if we didn't know there was a problem and that we could do something about it. Can't help without being informed.
For example, when the earthquake hit Haiti, without news organizations and tourists/civilians travelling across continents to visit, live, or work in Haiti, and unless someone was there to film the story, take pictures, testimony, write reports, and document the happenings, we probably wouldn't know that something occurred, would we? The sound in this case, is a sign of the need and desire to communicate in order to seek help to handle a natural disaster. So, even though someone had to record the sound and travel to another location to let everyone know a tree had fallen, or in other words, that there was an earthquake, then we wouldn't know it happened.
A sound can signify anything which signals that something has occurred which needs to be acknowledged.
So, what are other practical, real world examples of a tree falling in the forest . . . does it make a sound?
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