This paper identifies three claims that feature prominently in recent discussions concerning the experience of silence: (i) that experiences of silence are the most “negative” of perceptions, (ii) that we do not hear silences because those silences cause our experiences of silence, and (iii) that to hear silence is to hear a temporal region devoid of sound. The principal proponents of this approach are Phillips and Soteriou, and here I present a series of objections to common elements of their attempts to place these three claims within an account of experience of silence. The final section of the paper returns to the first of the three claims and argues that, in fact, there is no good reason to accept it as initially formulated. However, when properly formulated, the claim ceases to offer support for Phillips’s and Soteriou’s approach to experience of silence.

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体验沉默

本文确定了最近关于沉默体验的讨论中突出的三个主张：（i）沉默体验是最“负面”的感知，（ii）我们没有听到沉默，因为这些沉默导致我们的沉默体验，并且（iii）听到沉默就是听到没有声音的时间区域。这种方法的主要支持者是菲利普斯和索特里欧，在这里我提出了一系列反对他们试图将这三个主张置于对沉默体验的描述中的共同因素的反对意见。论文的最后一部分回到了三个主张中的第一个，并认为事实上，没有充分的理由接受它最初的表述。然而，如果配方得当，