# sounds and temporality **Opening (not a real abstract):** Sounds and Temporality Jonathan Cohen∗ Space and time are the forms of combination in intuition and serve for applying the categories in concreto (Kant, Notes on Metaphysics, AA 18 §5934, 1783–1784). What is the relationship between sounds and time? More specifically, is there something essentially or distinctively temporal about sounds that distinguishes them from, say, colors, shapes, odors, tastes, or other sensible qualities? And just what might this distinctive relation to time consist in? Apart from their independent interest, these issues have a number of important philosophical repercussions. First, if sounds are temporal in a way that other sensible qualities are not, then this would mean that standard lists of paradigm secondary qualities offered by Locke, Galileo, and other modern **Authors:** [[Jonathan Cohen∗]]