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If a ninja and a mime get into a fight in the forest, and there's no one around to not hear them, do they make a sound?

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[georgmi.livejournal.com]

I've always been bothered by this particular poser--instead of wondering about the philosophical question, I get bogged down in the fact that the answer is TRIVIALLY OBVIOUS once you have a definition of the word "sound", and instead of arguing back and forth between "yes" and "no," all the student needs to do is ask a simple clarifying question.