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Silence
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PureX
Veteran Member
It is perceived.
Aiviu
Active Member
Define Silence to destroy it's presence to you.
Kilgore Trout
Misanthropic Humanist
Context is everything.
Twilight Hue
Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
What?
Silence is the lack of vibrations in whatever medium. To us that medium is most probably air.
How is is measured also plays a part. For example a cat or bat will hear a different frequency range than humans. Or an audio analyser will register sounds far to quiet (silent) for humans to detect.
So, silence is perceived by who/what ever is not hearing sound.
RedDragon94
Love everyone, meditate often
I think silence is present in all things but it has to be created in most animated things.
FunctionalAtheist
Hammer of Reason
Silence is absence. The opposite of presence!
silence is the absence of the other 7 audible sounds. silence is audible. its a paradox.
its the 8th understood.
rev 8:1
Shh! Sound health in 8 steps
FunctionalAtheist
Hammer of Reason
Silence is ...an audible sound? One of 7? Sorrry, i understand physics, not nonsense.
FunctionalAtheist
Hammer of Reason
Silence is ... NOT perceived...the opposite of perceived. When one DOES NOT perceive sound, it's called silence.
FunctionalAtheist
Hammer of Reason
It is not!
FunctionalAtheist
Hammer of Reason
I agree with all but the last statement. Silence is the absence of perception by who/what ever is not perceiving sound. Silence is nothing.
OK, You've convinced me.
Desert Snake
Veteran Member
Silence is what noise isnt. Therefore, formed.
But if nothing audible had been formed, wouldn't that be silence?
"noise isn't?" Noise isn't a lot of things. Noise isn't a ham sandwich, so is a ham sandwich the same thing as silence?
I pretty much agree with the rider silence is effectively an impossibility in any medium but total vacuum, the absence of perception applies only to the individuals frequency range.