Your notion of meaning is too narrow. It entails that there is no such thing as a meaningful enterprise of any kind. That's non-obvious.
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Last thing from me: when pple make substantial claims about the meaning of life, they intend claims that can't be settled by dictionaries.
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I didn't say that they did. I used dictionary definitions as an example of definite-article meaning. You claim to be a PhD student, so I would have expected you to know what a straw man argument is.
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Is that fair?
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You don't seem to have taken the trouble to look meaning up in dictionary. Anyway dictionaries follow usage. Don't need Wittgenstein to know
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