The speaker does not refer to the literal sense of sight or sound, but rather, metaphorically, to thought. Ditto for intransitive listen in You listen, but you don't hear.Īnd, finally, note that look, listen, see, and hear are not being used literally in these examples. In context, intransitive look means try to look, which makes sense. That's rather different, because it doesn't necessarily entail see. The examples given in the OQ - You look, but you don't see, for instance - use intransitive look. Generally one uses the perceptual verb only if one can't use the volitional one that entails it. I.e, if you listened to it, you heard it and if you looked at it, you saw it.
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