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JT asked in Arts & HumanitiesPhilosophy · 1 decade ago

If a tree falls in a forest and no-one is around to hear it...?

...does anybody really care? I mean really, there are greater phillosophical questions than that to be answered.

What're your favourite philosophical questions, you know the type, the ones that get people really riled up and can easily ruin a good dinner party.

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  • 1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    Does anyone really care?.....I'd say about 80% do. The other 20% are wondering about that rhetorical bear question regarding reliveing himself in the woods..probably next to the tree that fell. Now that's a better question...If a tree falls in the forest, will it hit the bear doin' it's business?

  • 4 years ago

    First you ought to be asking is the tree truly there. Am i truly right here. Is sound only a figment of my personal tortured international. Am I typing to an life it truly is genuine or in my ideas. If each and everything is genuine and by no skill only your ideas arising it than...of route the tree makes a sound. If each and everything is created with techniques out of your ideas than... That tree ought to become a butterfly because it falls. Or it can make a sound ...that is as a lot as you:) yet i love TallGreen extraterrestrial beings answer more advantageous suited!

  • Dart
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago

    I don't think it is a philosophical question, but all I have to do is say "I am a vegan" at a dinner party and that can really rile up and ruin a good non-vegan/vegetarian dinner party (like who invited her?).

  • small
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    Truly philosophical questions are not meant for parties.

    But you can ask a lot of questions regarding the typical philosopher and create unlimited joy and laughter around!!

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  • 1 decade ago

    Food for thought , if really good, might at times ruin a good dinner party.... observation seems true.... !

  • ?
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    If heaven is going to be full of those religious zealots that are always breaching about fire and brimstone, would you really want to go there in the end?

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I do not understand how this question is philisophical. A tree makes a noise regardless is anyone is there to hear it.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    if you were alone in a forest and a tree fell on you would you feel it?

  • enki
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago

    a what if question.

    what if the cook put poison on our food, what would be your last word?

    that would be a good FOOD for the thoughts.

  • 1 decade ago

    hmmm... my fave would be...

    "what is love?"

    coz most people end up not being able to give a satisfactory answer... :)

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