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Better ways of thinking, feeling, and acting—around problems of meaning and meaninglessness; self and society; ethics, purpose, and value.

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    1. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness May 6
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      Replying to @lifeneoned @sonyasupposedly and

      “Philosophy” is not a well defined term, ofc, so whether or not something counts depends on context and purposes. Calling my stuff not-philosophy, even though it overlaps in topics, serves specific well-thought-out purposes (imo)

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    2. Jake Orthwein‏ @JakeOrthwein May 6
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      Replying to @Meaningness @lifeneoned and

      I sort of think of Meaningness as being meta to philosophy in the same way that meditation is meta to the contents of thought. Saying it's not philosophy is like saying meditation is not thinking. The object-level philosophy is invoked to explain meta-level pattern and nebulosity

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    3. Rival Voices ❁‏ @nosilverv May 6
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      Replying to @JakeOrthwein @Meaningness and

      Gonna side with my boy Jeremy here, for any folk understanding of philosophy (the study of general and fundamental questions about existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language - straight from wikipedia), meaningness (discourse on meaning) def. seems to fall under it

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    4. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness May 6
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      Replying to @nosilverv @JakeOrthwein and

      This is the fallacy of “field X claims to be the authoritative discourse on topic Y, therefore it is where you go to learn about Y.”

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    5. jeremy‏ @lifeneoned May 6
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      Replying to @Meaningness @nosilverv and

      False dichotomy - it's not 'either phil is the only authoritative discourse' or 'phil is totally bunk and useless.' Philosophy makes significant contributions to meaningness, many of which you don't address in the book. The phil method would also help.

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    6. jeremy‏ @lifeneoned May 6
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      Replying to @lifeneoned @Meaningness and

      method would help bc you often make claims that aren't very well defended or defined. E.g. 'always obvious' that meaningness is 'nebulous' and 'patterned.'could be reading you uncharitably but I didn't see a good justification/clarification; even in chapters where you defend this

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    7. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness May 6
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      Replying to @lifeneoned @nosilverv and

      Yes! This is precisely the point! It is because I am not doing philosophy that I have no reason to do that. If I were doing philosophy, I would. If I were doing (analytic) philosophy and didn’t clarify and justify, I would be doing (analytic) philosophy badly!

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    8. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness May 6
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      Replying to @Meaningness @lifeneoned and

      My purposes are quite different from those of philosophy, so my methods are quite different, and the relevant evaluation criteria are quite different. Does this clarify how it is that I am not doing philosophy?

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    9. Rival Voices ❁‏ @nosilverv May 6
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      Replying to @Meaningness @lifeneoned and

      It doesn't feel like intention is the relevant factor. I might not have intended to kill a deer but still have done so in my riding the car.

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    10. Rival Voices ❁‏ @nosilverv May 6
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      Replying to @nosilverv @Meaningness and

      Like I'd give your not doing philosophy but what is being generated def. feels like it falls under the abstract philosophy header even if it is different from current and perhaps ancient traditions of philosophy

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      David Chapman‏ @Meaningness May 6
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      Replying to @nosilverv @lifeneoned and

      Hmm. Arguing whether C is “really” a Y is pointless unless Y is well-enough defined that there’s a fact of the matter. Is ethnomethodology “really” cogsci? Extensive overlap in subject matter, totally different aims and methods. Both fields would say “nope, not cogsci.”

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        2. Yan Zhang‏ @krzhang May 6
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          Replying to @Meaningness @nosilverv and

          I do agree it's pointless and you can have good discussions without such a pindown, but considering your original point is to argue that what you are doing is *not* philosophy, I don't see how you can effectively do that without implicitly be trying to pin it down.

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        3. Rival Voices ❁‏ @nosilverv May 6
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          Replying to @krzhang @Meaningness and

          ☝️ I agree with the pointlessness but let's say I define "P" to mean "the study of general and fundamental questions about existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language". Would you say that Meaningness belongs to "P"? If not, why not?

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