“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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“Really” is a dangerous little weasel-word. It is used to intimidate you into accepting dubious metaphysical claims.
View ArticleA billion tiny spooks
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View ArticleNon-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...
View Article“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...
View ArticleNon-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...
View ArticleMonism 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...
View ArticleAgainst “really”
“Really” is a dangerous little weasel-word. It is used to intimidate you into accepting dubious metaphysical claims.
View ArticleA billion tiny spooks
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.
View ArticleCompleting 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...
View ArticleRumcake 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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