bonshui
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Failing some sort of extra-sensory-perception there's no way that one could know. Hearing/seeing or otherwise perceiving the tree (regardless of whether it is vertical, falling through the air or lying horizontally) is a prerequiste for knowledge in this case.
Moreover, if I encounter a tree lying horizontally, I may infer that it fell, but I cannot know for certain that it fell - all I can know (and not even for certain, since my senses do fail me from time to time) is that there is a tree lying horizontally. |
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wildbill05733
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trees don't grow horizontally. |
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HONORARIUS
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I'm deaf... I couldn't hear it, but I can see it... |
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mks 7-15-02
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I GUESS YOU DONT. |
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chastityelizabeth
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cuz i just fell over it ooops! |
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answerman288
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its a cinch it didnt grow that way |
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Skinny Kid
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its laying on the ground... |
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bred2bbroken
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Don't you mean "...how do you know it made a sound?"
I wrote a paper last semester which answers this question: |
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Justknow
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Great answer: Trees don't grow horizontally! |
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x_yiu
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It sounds therefore it is? Why do you need to hear it to know that it fell? Are you blind? |
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andry
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I would ask him Ü |
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lilyflower
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'cause its on the ground.and what that other person said,they dont grow sideways, (that is a very old riddle:) |
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mitodo_amor
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You don't unless you look but things happen all the time and we don't hear it or see it unless we are looking to. And then u still don't know when! |
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Silver Infinity
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Because unless you are deaf or it has been visited by a alien spiecies, a tree would produce sound waves when it fell, no matter how it happened to fall. |
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Joe
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How do you know if the tree fell, if nobody is around the tree? Not even you are not around the tree. |
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jameslh415
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you don't trip on a tree that hasn't fallen DOWN |
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