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The Meaninglessness of Meaning
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RE: The Meaninglessness of Meaning
July 25, 2015 at 6:20 pm
Quote: - we are capable of creating the delusion in which "I" have a "meaningful" existence. Is this feature a possible buttress to the seemingly inevitable logical conclusion of physicalism that "'objectively speaking,' no state of affairs possesses 'intrinsic' value or meaning"?

I believe so.

Quote:For perhaps such powers of creation do reveal physical processes imbued with meaning - even if they are processes that exclusively reveal themselves in the abstract - and it is in the abstract that meaning is not meaningless . . . but what does "existence in the abstract" mean in the context of objectivity?

Could you give an example of this?
I can't remember where this verse is from, I think it got removed from canon:

"I don't hang around with mostly men because I'm gay. It's because men are better than women. Better trained, better equipped...better. Just better! I'm not gay."

For context, this is the previous verse:

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The Meaninglessness of Meaning

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The Meaninglessness of Meaning - by Mudhammam - July 25, 2015 at 5:08 pm
RE: The Meaninglessness of Meaning - by Longhorn - July 25, 2015 at 5:55 pm
RE: The Meaninglessness of Meaning - by Exian - July 25, 2015 at 6:20 pm
RE: The Meaninglessness of Meaning - by Mudhammam - July 25, 2015 at 7:47 pm
RE: The Meaninglessness of Meaning - by Cato - July 25, 2015 at 10:27 pm
RE: The Meaninglessness of Meaning - by Exian - July 25, 2015 at 9:26 pm
RE: The Meaninglessness of Meaning - by BrokenQuill92 - July 25, 2015 at 11:17 pm
RE: The Meaninglessness of Meaning - by bennyboy - July 25, 2015 at 11:20 pm
RE: The Meaninglessness of Meaning - by Cato - July 25, 2015 at 11:25 pm
RE: The Meaninglessness of Meaning - by bennyboy - July 26, 2015 at 1:34 am
RE: The Meaninglessness of Meaning - by Whateverist - July 26, 2015 at 12:27 am
RE: The Meaninglessness of Meaning - by Cato - July 26, 2015 at 1:51 am
RE: The Meaninglessness of Meaning - by bennyboy - July 26, 2015 at 12:40 pm
RE: The Meaninglessness of Meaning - by ignoramus - July 26, 2015 at 4:43 am
RE: The Meaninglessness of Meaning - by robvalue - July 26, 2015 at 6:36 am
RE: The Meaninglessness of Meaning - by Whateverist - July 26, 2015 at 1:23 pm
RE: The Meaninglessness of Meaning - by ignoramus - July 26, 2015 at 8:25 am
RE: The Meaninglessness of Meaning - by Pyrrho - July 26, 2015 at 3:06 pm
RE: The Meaninglessness of Meaning - by Mudhammam - July 26, 2015 at 4:52 pm
RE: The Meaninglessness of Meaning - by Pyrrho - July 26, 2015 at 8:14 pm
RE: The Meaninglessness of Meaning - by Mudhammam - July 27, 2015 at 3:48 am
RE: The Meaninglessness of Meaning - by Pyrrho - July 27, 2015 at 11:41 am
RE: The Meaninglessness of Meaning - by ignoramus - July 26, 2015 at 4:58 pm
RE: The Meaninglessness of Meaning - by Angrboda - July 26, 2015 at 7:45 pm
RE: The Meaninglessness of Meaning - by Mudhammam - July 27, 2015 at 4:04 am
RE: The Meaninglessness of Meaning - by bennyboy - July 27, 2015 at 7:15 am
RE: The Meaninglessness of Meaning - by Mudhammam - July 27, 2015 at 7:54 am
RE: The Meaninglessness of Meaning - by robvalue - July 27, 2015 at 4:26 am
RE: The Meaninglessness of Meaning - by Mudhammam - July 27, 2015 at 6:24 am
RE: The Meaninglessness of Meaning - by Little lunch - July 27, 2015 at 6:06 am
RE: The Meaninglessness of Meaning - by bennyboy - July 27, 2015 at 8:55 am
RE: The Meaninglessness of Meaning - by robvalue - July 27, 2015 at 12:10 pm
RE: The Meaninglessness of Meaning - by Kingpin - July 27, 2015 at 5:09 pm
RE: The Meaninglessness of Meaning - by Pyrrho - August 10, 2015 at 6:59 pm
RE: The Meaninglessness of Meaning - by Kingpin - August 12, 2015 at 2:07 pm
RE: The Meaninglessness of Meaning - by Mudhammam - August 12, 2015 at 10:33 pm
RE: The Meaninglessness of Meaning - by Kingpin - August 13, 2015 at 9:59 am
RE: The Meaninglessness of Meaning - by Pyrrho - August 13, 2015 at 10:26 pm
RE: The Meaninglessness of Meaning - by Whateverist - August 10, 2015 at 8:34 pm
RE: The Meaninglessness of Meaning - by ignoramus - August 13, 2015 at 5:13 am
RE: The Meaninglessness of Meaning - by robvalue - August 13, 2015 at 10:17 am
RE: The Meaninglessness of Meaning - by Kingpin - August 13, 2015 at 10:31 am
RE: The Meaninglessness of Meaning - by Ben Davis - August 13, 2015 at 11:28 am

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