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Quote by TheAngryishLoverNice of you to prove, that even Wikipedia agrees with what I wrote. I just cannot understand, how you keep on claiming, the definition above is not true.
Like this, you mean?
Sound
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about audible acoustic waves. For other uses, see Sound (disambiguation).
In physics, sound is a vibration that propagates as a typically audible mechanical wave of pressure and displacement, through a medium such as air or water. In physiology and psychology, sound is the reception of such waves and their perception by the brain.[1]
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It has to have rhythm, it has to have rhyme
It must be in sync like a clock ticking time
It mostly is short, but at times it is long
At times it's called powerful, sometimes... not so strong
It is loneliness, fear, it is utter despair
There are days, that it shows, I just no longer care
It is hate and compassion and the things I dream of
It is friendship and faith and the greatness of love
It goes on, like the seasons, the sun and the tide
When it has to come out there is no place to hide
It is force, a compulsion and perhaps it is me
And I can not contain it, it is my poetry
It must be in sync like a clock ticking time
It mostly is short, but at times it is long
At times it's called powerful, sometimes... not so strong
It is loneliness, fear, it is utter despair
There are days, that it shows, I just no longer care
It is hate and compassion and the things I dream of
It is friendship and faith and the greatness of love
It goes on, like the seasons, the sun and the tide
When it has to come out there is no place to hide
It is force, a compulsion and perhaps it is me
And I can not contain it, it is my poetry
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Quote by TheAngryishLover
I think a lot of you are thinking I'm stupid, or talking crap (or maybe just think I'm wrong) ....
Well, if anything, I'd call you stubborn.
Would you indulge me and explain to me, why dictionaries exist? In my humble opinion, the are meant to describe our language and, as much as possible, give the proper definition of the words we use. You can of course keep on ignoring that as trivial, but I'm sure that a lot of people who value the proper use of language would disagree.
Fact is, that all the major dictionaries in the world, regardless of the language they are written in, describe sound as a natural phenomenon, that CAN be experienced by hearing it, but that is not a condition in any serious dictionary. Any label to a sound, like music, speach, bleating and yes, noise too is a result of our interpretation of a sound. And that only happens when we hear a sound. That sound however, has to exist to be heard.
Blaming Adele for... damn, I thought I was hit by bowling balls!
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Quote by trinket
My understanding of the quote is we are not asking if sound exists, rather that does that particular sound occur if nobody heard it? "Sound Causes hearing" is not correct. A 100% Hearing impaired person is not going to hear sound at all so Miriam's definition is questionable.
The literal text in Merriam-Webster's is: "mechanical radiant energy that is transmitted by longitudinal pressure waves in a material medium (as air) and is the objective cause of hearing". The last part of that definition says, that sound is the cause of hearing. In other words, we can hear, because there is sound.
Edit:
This thread has evolved into a discussion about the existence of sound, when no living being is there to hear it. The original question however, was not about sound, but about noise. The relevant definitions for that in Merriam_Webster are:
a : sound; especially : one that lacks agreeable musical quality or is noticeably unpleasant
b : any sound that is undesired or interferes with one's hearing of something
A sound will always be a sound, but can only be a noise, if there is a living being present to hear it and experience it as either lacking agreeable musical quality, being noticeably unpleasant or undesired or interfering with that being's hearing of something.
So if there is no living being with hearing capabilities present, there still will be sound, but that can not be a noise.
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If we decide to call a flat piece of higly reflective material in a frame a mirror, and record that decision in al the major dictionaries, would you not agree, that a mirror exists, when a flat piece of higly reflective material in a frame exists?
Then why do we need to discuss if sound exists, when
mechanical radiant energy, that is transmitted by longitudinal pressure waves in a material medium, exists? That dear philosophers, is how sound is defined by science, according to a leading dictionary (Merriam-Webster). Other dictionaries use different words, but with the same meaning: sound is a set of waves, traveling through a medium. Merriam-Webster also states, that sound causes hearing. It therefore cannot be, that hearing causes sound.
Then why do we need to discuss if sound exists, when
mechanical radiant energy, that is transmitted by longitudinal pressure waves in a material medium, exists? That dear philosophers, is how sound is defined by science, according to a leading dictionary (Merriam-Webster). Other dictionaries use different words, but with the same meaning: sound is a set of waves, traveling through a medium. Merriam-Webster also states, that sound causes hearing. It therefore cannot be, that hearing causes sound.
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Quote by Shannon3KNope, never needed a bra
Nope....I am a reasonably good cook, so there's no need for me to indulge in this small deception.
HYE been beaten almost to death and totally humiliated while trying to put on a sports bra?
can't imagine doing such a thing either btw. Did that happen to you?HYE used violence, wanted or not, on a member of the opposite sex?
