The current phrasing appears to have originated in the 1910 book Physics by Charles Riborg Mann and George Ransom Twiss.

If there be no ears to hear, there will be no sound.' The falling of the tree or any other disturbance will produce vibration of the air. Sound is the sensation excited in the ear when the air or other medium is set in motion.' The magazine Scientific American corroborated the technical aspect of this question, while leaving out the philosophic side, a year later when they asked the question slightly reworded, 'If a tree were to fall on an uninhabited island, would there be any sound?' And gave a more technical answer, 'Sound is vibration, transmitted to our senses through the mechanism of the ear, and recognized as sound only at our nerve centers. In June 1883, in the magazine The Chautauquan, the question was asked, 'If a tree were to fall on an island where there were no human beings would there be any sound?' They then went on to answer the query with, 'No. However, his work did deal extensively with the question of whether objects could continue to exist without being perceived. Дespite these passages bearing a distant resemblance to the question, Berkeley never actually proposed the question itself.

no longer than while there is somebody by to perceive them. The objects of sense exist only when they are perceived the trees therefore are in the garden. The closest are the following two passages from Berkeley's A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge, published in 1710:Д«ut, say you, surely there is nothing easier than for me to imagine trees, for instance, in a park, or books existing in a closet, and nobody by to perceive them. While the origin of the phrase is sometimes mistakenly attributed to George Berkeley, there are no extant writings in which he discussed this question. 2.3 The dissimilarity between sensation and reality.2.1 The possibility of unperceived existence.

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