id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt c821gh95k71 Thomas John Mulherin The Antinomy of Musical Meaning 2012 .txt text/plain 340 12 39 Third and finally, I argue for the legitimacy of the debate itself, and hence my project, by showing that the concept of absolute music does not by itself preclude such music from expressing meaning. This falsity, in turn, gives the debate over absolute music's meaning an antinomial character, suggesting that the question of musical meaning is better pursued from a different starting point. cache/c821gh95k71.txt txt/c821gh95k71.txt