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> If the universe is meaningless, and all the things in it are equally meaningless (ourselves included) That is an assumption in itself. No one is obligated to
by vacuity 3y ago
> If the universe is meaningless, and all the things in it are equally meaningless (ourselves included)
That is an assumption in itself. No one is obligated to act under that premise.
> How is it possible to create meaning? I guess we could just declare that this thing has meaning, but isn't this just a delusion? Like thinking 0 + 0 = 1?
We perceive meaning all the time. This thread came to be because many people hold some meaning or another to the topic, the thought of discussing it, or something else along those lines. There is no reasoning to this phenomenon. It is not even an axiom, something taken to be true and not provable (or disprovable). If we didn't ascribe meaning to things then this conversation wouldn't be happening. I don't live in a world without meaning because I just don't. I couldn't imitate a bacterium if I wanted to. Now it's just a matter of whether I find it permissible for me to act on personal desires.
- nateb2022 3y ago> That is an assumption in itself. No one is obligated to act under that premise. No, it is not. By definition, "[t]he universe is often defined as "the totality of existence", or everything that exists, everything that has existed, and everything that will exist."[0] If we hold that everything is without meaning, we cannot hold that anything has meaning. It would be a contradiction. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universe
- vacuity 3y agoEven if the universe is all of existence, that the universe holds no meaning is an axiom. If that means that I can't hold anything to a meaning, I reject that axiom because I do hold things to have meaning. I'm not mindlessly typing out this reply; I have thoughts about philosophy that I think to present. I at least hold meaning for studying philosophy and participating in a discussion about philosophy.