Theorist: Hatred and anger, grief and despair, love and joy are pairs of emotions that consist of the same core feeling and are distinguishable from each other only in terms of the social conditions that cause them and the behavior they in turn cause
So even if the meaning of a given piece of music is the emotion it elicits, this can mean only that music produces the core of a given emotion, for music is merely sound and, ttherefore, by itself creates neither social conditions nor human behavior
It is a generalization a particular instance of which is cited by the argument in order to undermine the viewpoint that the argument is attacking.