It does make a sound because the act of making a sound has nothing to do with the people around it because a sound wave would still move through the air. Regardless of who is present, it will make a sound.
Simple answer: Yes, it makes a sound regardless of who is present at the time.
Complicated answer: The tree falling and the sound it makes are cause and effect. Perception is independent of the event and the effects of the event. If an event happens, the effect happens; whether someone perceives it or not. It could be a long delayed perception biting our behinds like what we have now with global warming and icebergs melting. Does a pebble pitched in a pond produce ripples if no one's there but the blind man? Knowledge can only verify existence, Knowledge does not prove absence; except the absence of knowledge. So anyway, if we are to get scientific about it, then yes. But we will never know for %100 certainty
Of course it makes a sound. This question is not supposed to be a brain teaser or and exam question, it is about nature and the connection between nature and humans.
It is implying that "no one" includes humans and humans only. A gopher or a bird might have heard the tree fall, but saying that "no one" was there is implying that no one human was there to hear it.
This statment is saying that humans always exclude nature itself from our language and that human and nature are two different things.
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A sound wave ... Although if the tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it does it make a sound? :))
Yes
Epistemology.
The phrase "If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?" is commonly attributed to the philosopher George Berkeley. However, it may have actually originated with the philosopher William of Ockham.
If a tree falls in the forest, and there's no one around, does it make a sound?
yes
Yes, the falling tree will generate sound waves whether or not there is anyone there to hear them. Sound is a vibration that travels through the air, and the falling tree will create these vibrations regardless of whether someone is there to perceive them.
no it does not make a sound because the tree is all the way in the forest and your home you can not hear it or it depends where you live if you live in the forest yes if not no.
I don't know who the athour is but the answer is Yes it does make a sound because no matter if anyone is there or not the falling tree makes the same sound.
If a tree falls down in a forest, but there is no-one to hear it, does it still make a sound?
If a tree falls in the forest, and no one is around to hear it, does it truly make a sound?
If a tree falls in the forest, does it make sound? Of course planes make noise at night. But if you are fast asleep, or otherwise not attending to the sound, then they seem not to be there.