Saturday, February 14, 2009
Classic Existence
So, since there really aren't any food for thought questions (or are there?), I decided to write my own inspired by one of the questions. One of my favorite arguments is the one about the tree. Come on, you've all heard it before, so some variation thereof.
If a tree falls in a forest and no one is there to hear it fall, does it still make a sound?
My dad actually has a shirt that says: If a man speaks at sea with no woman to hear him, is he still wrong? Which is just a clever way of repeating the same thing.
But anyway, does it? And can we really ever answer this question or is it, as one kid in my English class likes to say, "completely pointless because philosophy has no answers."
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commenting on your last paragraph - i think everyone has their own individual answers/opinions to philosophy,and in each individual's mind they are right. and therefore, everyone is right.
alex you just hurt my head. i think that it does still make a sound because the fall is movement, movement is vibration, and vibration is sound. ergo the falling tree makes a sound
philosophy in general hurts my head. i'm not the biggest fan.
but i think it is what helps us in the struggle to understand
i believe humans in general are afraid of the unknown, and therefore find and create their own answers or explanations.
this is how i see philosophy.
Scientifically, it still makes a sound. I don't want to repeat the same scientific explanation of why it makes a sound that everyone else has. It's just that nobody is around to hear it.
Scientifically, it still makes a sound. I don't want to repeat the same scientific explanation of why it makes a sound that everyone else has. It's just that nobody is around to hear it.
the tree makes a sound obviously... there's just no one physically there to hear it. the tree falls and then hits the ground which causes a vibration and waves, therefore creating a sound.
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