Sound, Epistemology, Film

Abstract This chapter focuses on the intuitive perception of sound. Different aspects of the perception of sound are sorted out to reconcile the nature of sound: sound as adjective, sound in the middle world, two perceptions of time, sound as information, sound within epistemological boundaries, and sound under description. Sound as adjective happens when a word or group of words come to mind in order for the perception to be intelligible. Sound in the middle world is our ability to hear sounds, and this exists in parallel with the ability to make sounds. The two perceptions of time are about the diversity of top-down and bottom-up processes. Sound as ‘information’ and its units may oppose each other but sound and light has no intrinsic contradiction. Sound within epistemological boundaries refers to sound as not having an absolute quality. Sound under description refers to two categories by Donnellan: existential and nominal.