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Date Posted: 19:43:32 04/29/05 Fri
Author: Tiffany Barnett
Subject: do we impose meaning on objects?

In the book, Sounds and Society, the author contemplates an argument that I cannot decide which side I agree with. The argument goes as follows, �meaning of objects resides not in their ability to excite our senses but in the nature of the means in which we have to perceive them.� In the same paragraph, he continues with �far from objects imposing their qualities on us, we impose meaning on them.� After thinking about this and even asking a friend, I�ve decided that it must be a mixture of both, sensory feedback that allows us to touch, see and hear an object to get a mental image and then we produce meaning for the image based on what we already know. For this same reason, I believe that some songs allow people to picture themselves being in a different place. It may be a reason why music is so popular. For a split second some songs can make you forget the bad weather or the stressful day.

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