The latter is correct.

Oct 22, Berkeley would argue that a tree falling in the woods does not make a sound as long as no one is around to hear it because he believes that sound is something that humans perceive with our minds; therefore if humans do not exist or are not present, sound cannot bushmulching.barted Reading Time: 8 mins.

Nov 25, Objective idealism: the tree and forest is dependent on minds, but even in the absence of human minds an all seeing mind 'holds' the forest and falling tree in existence, so that the qualia of the falling tree noise still exists even when no human is around. - Dukkha. Jun 12, For those of us who think material trees do exist, a tree falling in a lonely forest will produce a sound defined as ‘vibrations in the air able to be heard’, and won’t produce a sound defined as ‘sensation produced by vibrations in the air impinging on an eardrum’.Estimated Reading Time: 3 mins.

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The philosophical puzzle: “If a tree falls in the forest and there's no one around to hear it, does it make a sound?” By using the epistemology approach to this age old question the answer would be a yes. The sound is created because the entire act of the tree falling remains the same. Name: George Berkeley Time Period: -- Quote:"If a tree falls in the forest and no one hears it, does it make a sound?" Brief Description: George Berkeley was an Anglican bishop, philosopher, and writer. The foundation of his theory was that perception creates our reality.

Perception, he said, was given to us by God so that we could try to understand this world. One of the great dumb philosphy questions is,"If a tree falls in a forest and there's no one there to hear it, does it make a sound?" The obvious answer is:"Of course there is.

What a stupid question. Next you're going to ask about that clapping thing." But philosophy isn't about the obvious; philosophy is about the devious. May 09, For Kant, a tree falling in a forest will make a sound in so far as every necessary condition for it making a sound has been bushmulching.bar the Critique of Pure Reason, he generally extends both causality and the principle of sufficient reason to all possible experience (A/B [1] and A/B [2])[] such that, for any possible event, it's conditions to occur must have been given in the world.

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Mar 14,"If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it fall, does it make a sound?" Despite the seeming profundity of this question, and despite its use in philosophical discussions and.

“If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?” ― George Berkeley tags: philosophygodinspirational-quotestruthwisdompoetryromancedeath ( Locke would say that, if a tree fell in the woods ticks drop out of trees nobody heard it, then he'd say that nobody would know about it, not that it didn't happen.

Empiricism isn't a claim that knowledge of something is a necessary property for that something to be.