# nature-of-noise **Opening (not a real abstract):** I think that we should conceive of sound as like colour, rather than as like light.… That is to say, we should continue to treat sound as the object of hearing and we should think of sounds as existing within the object that ‘makes’ them. — Robert Pasnau (, ) I take it, however, that we want to attribute the tonal qualities of the noises made to the nature of the thing that produces them, and thus ascribe the tonal characteristics to the thing itself as causal properties. — J. O. Urmson (, ) **Authors:** [[John Kulvicki]]