A claim about whiskey quality must identify whether its measured outcome is price, preference, conformance or fitness for a stated purpose.
Proxies may be useful when their relation to the intended outcome is justified; naming a proxy does not make it invalid.
The report explicitly uses commercial price as its proxy. A relationship to that outcome should not silently become a relationship to blind liking or suitability for a blend.
Atomic idea
A claim about whiskey quality must identify whether its measured outcome is price, preference, conformance or fitness for a stated purpose.
Reasoning
The report explicitly uses commercial price as its proxy. A relationship to that outcome should not silently become a relationship to blind liking or suitability for a blend.
Located evidence
Original synthesis from a historical source as reproduced in a modern compilation; no claim of independent experimental confirmation.
Library connection
Counterpoint
Proxies may be useful when their relation to the intended outcome is justified; naming a proxy does not make it invalid.
Whisky Words — complete-volume qualification, 29 September 2026
PDF28–30's commercial-price comparison is now situated beside promotional purity claims187–197 and the blend account166–167. Price, advertised merit, measured composition and target fit remain distinct outcomes.
Existing atomic statement, maturity and prior evidence are retained.