Their description of it moreorless as ‘something I care about’ seems a good start and reasonable.
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Replying to @Black__Dwarf
Well… yes… and one can immediately think of several quite different, and correct, objections…
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Replying to @Meaningness
Yes… I guess, if you decide to start somewhere in describing meaning, value already has an analytic tradition…
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Replying to @Black__Dwarf @Meaningness
Is there a good argument against deliberate energy expenditure, with opportunity cost, as having value? …
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or are value and meaning not to be considered the same?
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Replying to @Black__Dwarf
Well… “value” is quantitative; some dimensions of meaning are not: purpose, for example.
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Replying to @Meaningness @Black__Dwarf
And there are many sorts of value, which are incommensurable.
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Replying to @Black__Dwarf
Right, & right. Book uses metaphor of a rainbow for this; odd coincidence, cuz I was writing w/ the same yesterday b4 reading!
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Replying to @Meaningness
Damn you are making me think I might have to read this book.
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It’s quick and easy and enjoyable and you wouldn’t actually learn anything.
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