New edgy thread

Berkeley would say that the dissipation of pressure waves through an independent medium is just a hypothesis that you arrive at by abstracting from the only things you truly know, which are the things you know directly through sense perception, which is the sound as you hear it, the noise 'inside your head' so to speak.

So then Berkeley is defining sound as something you sense' -so he would give the answer 'no, if no one was there, there would be no sound'.

Again, a matter of definitions, define how the word sound is being used and the question answers itself.

The dissipation of pressure waves through an independent medium it is a theory not a hypothesis. [/pedant] :p