I’ve found surprisingly few philosophy papers that take #nihilism seriously and point out why each of the arguments for it are mistaken.
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I’m having to trawl through the blogosphere and forums to locate each of the arguments for
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When the sun explodes, there will be no more saws. Does that mean saws don’t exist? That they can’t cut wood?
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Meanings don’t last forever; that doesn’t mean they don’t exist.
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The saw was an analogy (apparently unhelpful one). Question is: why would you think meanings have to last forever to exist at all?
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Yes, that’s probably a big part of it!
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This is very interesting but I’m not sure what you mean. What are layers of meaning? Examples?
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Interesting… Say more about what the two are?
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Yes; a big part of what is going on is that eternalism creates exaggerated expectations for what meaningfulness could be.
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Nihilists are quite right to reject “ultimate/absolute/cosmic meaning.” These are not just nonexistent, they’re incoherent.
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