In Reply to: Here's the foundation of American Pragmatism due to CS Peirce posted by Frihed89 on September 5, 2012 at 06:30:02:
Yes, super profound.
That can be restated loosely as the meaning of something is what you use it for.
This is why the Harman ABX lab is bogus and audio testing is properly done in it's natural use context. In testing, the whole use context is different from normal listening.
This general pragmatic train of thought was picked up by Wittgenstein, who started out as the star of formal logic then rejected it and moved to a model when all truth was established by use within "language games."
So a logical system like physics was a system that perfectly mapped the world under early Wittgenstein and under late Wittgenstein it was a self-contained "game" with its own rules and language, that had only contingent reference to the exterior universe. Other games operate under other rules and you can't explain one game using the rules of another.
The technical electronics game and the music evaluation game are separate entities, different rules sets, and different goals.
So, combining the insights of these two giants of pragmatic philosophy you get J-ROB's critique of double blind testing and an intellectual blowtorch to yield against the objectivist brutes on the audio forums.
Floyd E. Toole is alright but he is not in the intellectual league of Peirce and Wittgenstein.
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