Thread: If a tree falls in the forest..you're gonna hate this one.

I'm going to say that it does make a noise. I'm not familiral with the philosophical approach to the question, but I have always enjoyed philosophy and I would love to hear your reasoning when you are ready to share it.

Though I don't know anything about your reasoning yet, I would love if you could, in talking about why the tree does not make a sound, address the question - "If a tree falls in the forest and there's no one around to hear it, does a tree fall in the forest?" I'm not sure how the answer to one question could be no and the other yes.

I've done some reading, and answered my question in that second section. It seems to me to be a misleading question, with regards to the deeper questions it seeks to probe. Maybe only misleading when taken out of context. Anyhow, philosophically, I am a skeptic - I differentiate between "knowledge" and "functional knowledge" and do not think there is any true "knowledge." "Functional knowledge" would encompass those things that those who believe there is knowledge would call knowledge, and I stick in "functional" because, whether or not this is true knowledge, it allows us to function in our day to day lives.