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“Ultimate”: use carefully

“Ultimate” and “ultimately” are words that often turn up in discussions of meaningness.Two examples, one eternalist and the other nihilist:“The ultimate nature of Being is Love.”“Ultimately, the mind...

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Against “really”

“Really” is a dangerous little weasel-word. It is used to intimidate you into accepting dubious metaphysical claims.

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A billion tiny spooks

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Non-existence: Scarlet Leviathan

This page is unfinished. It may be a mere placeholder in the book outline. Or, the text below (if any) may be a summary, or a discussion of what the page will say, or a partial or rough draft.The...

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“Ultimate”: use carefully

“Ultimate” and “ultimately” are words that often turn up in discussions of meaningness.Two examples, one eternalist and the other nihilist:“The ultimate nature of Being is Love.”“Ultimately, the mind...

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Non-existence: Scarlet Leviathan

This page is unfinished. It may be a mere placeholder in the book outline. Or, the text below (if any) may be a summary, or a discussion of what the page will say, or a partial or rough draft.The...

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Monism and dualism contain each other

Pathological counter-dependencyMonism and dualism are opposites. But because each is obviously wrong, each turns into the other when cornered. A devious trick!Monism is the stance that fixates sameness...

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Against “really”

“Really” is a dangerous little weasel-word. It is used to intimidate you into accepting dubious metaphysical claims.

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A billion tiny spooks

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Completing the countercultures

Galleon courtesy George OwensThe countercultures of the 1960s-80s took attitudes to boundaries as their central themes. The monist counterculture—the 1960s youth movement—wanted to eliminate all...

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Rumcake and rainbows

Rainbow image courtesy Eric RolphObviously meaningfulness is either outside your head (“objective”), or else inside your head (“subjective”).There are excellent reasons to believe it is not outside...

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