Meanings cohere via our ongoing skilled activities of spinning and weaving them. Contra:
Eternalism/essentialism: meaning reflects inherent features of objects
Nihilism/Idealism/existentialism: we create meanings ex nihilo
By @sarahdoingthing
https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2018/12/07/something-runs-through-the-whole-thread/ …
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Replying to @Meaningness @sarahdoingthing
I think here you're conflating two issues. Normally I wouldn't care. but this case is important. I think what Sarah is talking about is "dictionary" meaning: how we use words, and how those usages change. 1/
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Whereas the two examples you give are "personal" meaning, something like "self-fulfillment/a reason for getting up in the morning/connection to other human beings". This is something rather different 2/
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though of course the use of a common word (as so often) shows us that there's some sort of commonality behind the two. So where does this SECOND "meaningful" meaningness come from? Here's one brief sketch of a theory I threw off in a comment:https://www.bradford-delong.com/2017/10/highlighted-september-12-2017.html#comment-6a00e551f08003883401bb09ca6315970d …
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my take from a few years agohttps://www.ribbonfarm.com/2015/10/01/meaning-and-pointing/ …
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I have to read that carefully! But a quick glance suggests that you are inhabiting much the same sort of space as Zoltan Torey. Is that a legit condensation of the few headlines I saw?
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idk his work but it looks like his ideas are similar to philippe rochat who has been influential to me
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