Opinions - The Absolute Sound

Blkadr: Note that I'm not the one who used "tautological." ;) I think a little epistemology makes a nice counterpart to "the best speaker", and of course, toothpaste.

Mrtennis: Glad to see you biting the bullet on the impossibility of scientific knowledge. Hard to do nowadays (harder than it was for Plato), given the remarkable success of scientific inquiry.

As others have noted, the music reviews and writing in both TAS and Sp probably justify the cost (though I feel guilty about the paper). I've been put on to a good bit of nice music I'd not have come across otherwise.

J

Great mag worth it!!

Just think of Stereophile and TAS as audio porn. :) Who cares about the articles?

Rxman:

"Tasac"........PRN OU.

i will admit that this discussion is out of proportion to the importance of the topic, however, i wish to comment upon my position of the inadmissibility of scientific knowledge..

any "theories" based upon observation cannot be proven mathematically.

such theories or as one would call them "empirically-based knowledge", are based upon inductive reasoning, which cannot be proven with certainty.

knowledge implies truth, implies certainty.

newton's theory of gravity is a stochastic phenomenon. there is some very small probability that some event in the future may contradict it, although, to date it has not happened.

this subject requires a semester of philosophy, so i will say no more.

i think i should have majored in philosophy and gone for a phd and then decided to teach.