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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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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Replying to @sonyasupposedly @Meaningness
The "choice" piece is part of the existentialist error, I think. Things have to show up as already meaningful. Vervaeke is quite good on the salience framing:https://academic.oup.com/logcom/article-abstract/22/1/79/1007787?redirectedFrom=fulltext …
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Ah, you beat me to it! Exactly that. And I also nearly mentioned Vervaeke—“relevance realization”
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