Christine Ladd-Franklin was an extraordinarily impressive mathematician & scientist I had never heard of before: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine_Ladd-Franklin …
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And goodness knows Russell’s own work turned out to be absurdly false—if not quite so obviously so.
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Thomas Nagel may be the best philosopher to argue for nihilism, but his The Absurd jumps from “I can’t absolutely prove anything meaningful”
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… to “everything is definitely meaningless,” with no discussion, as if this was a syllogistic deduction.
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Nihilism is a mind-killer; somehow it makes obviously nonsensical logical leaps seem compelling rational. Due to emotional payoff, I think.
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Nihilism payoff? You suggest a bogeyman to scare toward traditional eternalism, but could also be an escape for rational eternalists.
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Pragmatically adaptive as stopping procedure for endless regress of pursuing meaning via reason. Shut up and meditate.
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Postrat dilemma, the slippery relation between stories (insight porn) and subjective experience of life meaning. Meaning is created somehow
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by the ritual construction and sharing of culturally valued story-forms. Even if the actual content is sometimes rather lacking.
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Seems like some conscious absurdisim from Christine, if not necessarily a joke.
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That may be! But smart people manage to convince themselves of absurd things. (Like nihilism…)
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