Leddington has recently put forward a new version of the idea that sounds are properties. Whereas other ‘property views’ take material objects to be the bearers of sounds (the sound of a bell being struck is a property instantiated by the bell itself), on Leddington's view sounds are borne by the source events in which these objects are participating (the sound of a bell being struck is a property instantiated by the striking event). In this paper, I argue that the case for events as the bearers of sound properties rather than objects is, at best, ambiguous, and that there are good reasons for wanting to include objects amongst the things we hear. I put forward a new account on which sounds are temporally extended properties of objects. This approach, I argue, not only retains the advantages of Leddington's view, but also allows for the audibility of both objects and events.

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声音属性

Leddington 最近提出了一个新版本的想法，即声音是属性。而其他“属性视图”将物质对象视为声音的承载者（敲钟的声音是由铃铛本身实例化的属性），而在莱丁顿看来，声音由这些对象参与的源事件承载（敲钟的声音是由敲击事件实例化的属性）。在本文中，我认为事件作为声音属性的承载者而不是对象的情况充其量是模棱两可的，并且有充分的理由希望将对象包括在我们听到的事物中。我提出了一个新帐户，其中声音是对象的时间扩展属性。我认为，这种方法不仅保留了莱丁顿观点的优点，