Yes there is a sound. The tree fall, energy is released, the air vibrates and moves. Sound is not the sensation of you hearing something its the transfer of energy through the air.
Just as the cat can't be dead and alive. These are exclusive states and prevent each other from being applied at the same time.
Sense is not thought. Senses being lies and thoughts and ideas being lies are different. You can't prove your sense, you know for fact they can be tricked. Your thoughts flow from the consciousness. Cogito ergo sum~"I think there for I am". For you to think there must be a you, and if you are not a lie then other things must not be lies as well. Your ideas if based on lies and incorrect information are lies, but ideas based on logic and reality are true. To make the room you see around you you must know something of reality, you must know based on the way your faulty senses are acting in response to those surrounds a rough idea of what those surroundings are somewhat like.
I claim to know nothing of reality only that reality is truth. Only fools claim to know.
If your beliefs constitute reality then morals and laws can't be applied unilaterally and you have to let people murder, rape, steal, ect because they can argue in their reality they don't have those morals or laws. Also if you decide to believe that a magic unicorn lives in your closet, no matter how much you believe that there will be no magic unicorn in your closet and the men in white coats will come lock you away. The very reason we study things like math is because math represents truths of reality that allow us act with in reality. You can't build a house by believing you can build a house without having the knowledge to design and build the house. If any thing the universe is not a formless entity one can control but a giant mechanism governed by laws that we can only hope to learn so we might make use of them. That's not to say I'd argue that the universe and reality control us or that we can't with enough knowledge control that reality to some degree either.
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