 An important dialectical limitation of Sorensen’s suggestion is that it does not provide us with an independent argument in favor of the Wave Theory. The identification of sounds with sound waves is of course compatible with the fact that we locate sounds at a point (the sounding object’s location) which happens to be the center of expanding sound waves. However, the analogy with the localization of earthquakes breaks down at a crucial point. Of course, we can usefully identify a certain region as the center of a particular earthquake. (In general, earthquakes can be localized at their hypocenter only when we have at least a rough representation of their full extension in space.) By contrast, as Sorensen admits, the auditory system does not identify the sounding object’s location as the center of expanding sound waves. Indeed, it does not identify this location as the center of anything. (Compare the way the visual system identifies the landing area of a stone thrown in water as the center of a series of concentric, expanding waves. None of the sort is available to the auditory system.) Now many entities other than sound waves are at the object’s location when we hear a sound, including events (monadic or relational, as we shall see below). Thus, facts about the apparent location of sounds do not justify the Wave Theory better than the Event Theory; quite the contrary, given our other independent considerations against the former approach.