I don’t intend to clarify my method because it’s irrelevant to the reader. The book works (or not) to change the reader’s way of being as well as it does (or doesn’t) regardless of how it was composed.
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Replying to @Meaningness @lifeneoned and
The book is supposed to have a section here explaining why existentialism is wrong. Haven’t got to it yet.https://meaningness.com/existentialism-muddled-middle …
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Replying to @Meaningness @nosilverv and
Yea I’d be super interested to see that section. I haven’t read the whole book yet but your approach seems very similar to several existentialist views
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Replying to @lifeneoned @nosilverv and
I suspect you are laboring under the misapprehension that meaning must be either objective or subjective. Obviously I am not endorsing an objective story, and existentialism is the salient subjective one, so you mistake my story for that.
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Replying to @Meaningness @lifeneoned and
Meaning is neither objective nor subjective:https://meaningness.com/objective-subjective …
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Replying to @Meaningness @lifeneoned and
somehow I feel like I completely agree with you although I would use very different words to describe it my best boil-it-down would be > meaning comes from mattering which I like to say, although I think you might not like it. or I would say that meaning is a decision,pic.twitter.com/5fJ9dqYlog
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Replying to @sonyasupposedly @lifeneoned and
Yes this was a central insight of Heidegger’s. The philosophical mainstream got this backwards
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Replying to @Meaningness
I feel like the way we use the concept of meaning reveals what it is. thinking about the language of it is what made this click for me — A can mean B, which is an assignment; meaning is equivalent to significance and signifying is much the same, to choose to make an association
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Replying to @sonyasupposedly @Meaningness
and then significance is also importance. to signify is, in a sense, to _make of import_, to assign salience so that's what I think meaning is — the choice, process, and experience of creating salience
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Replying to @sonyasupposedly @Meaningness
of course this becomes circular because then what is salience? it arises from the choice, no? hmm
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Yes, the line you are taking here is similar to that of the lineages of thought I respect (Heidegger, 4E cog sci, ethnomethodology). One minor point: meaning/significance mostly can’t be chosen. We have *some* agency there, but mostly we’re “thrown into” a structure of meaning
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