 But are sounds really located in space? There is in the literature a strong non-locational view of sounds. Strawson has made the plausibility of a thought-experiment of a purely auditory world rest upon the tenet of an intrinsic non-spatiality of sounds. (Philosophers and psychologists such as Lotze (1841 [1884: Ch. 6, 123–6]), Binet (1905: Ch. 3), Heymans (1911 [1905]: Ch. 1), Stumpf (1883–1890: Vol. 1, 29), Wellek (1934), Révész (1946), Ihde (1976: Ch. 6), Evans (1980 [1986: 248 ff.]), have investigated the phenomenology of auditory space and suggested the possibility of a purely auditory world.) Strawson (1959: 65–66) thus wrote: 