> Science taught me that it's all just atoms and the void, so there can't be any deeper point or purpose to the whole thing Since science† doesn't have anythin

> Science taught me that it's all just atoms and the void, so there can't be any deeper point or purpose to the whole thing Since science† doesn't have anything to say on the subject of purpose (since it's literally meta-physics that speaks on purpose) we're already off the rails. However ... > Few things are meaningful all by themselves; most derive their meaning from the things they point to. Of course, the buck has to stop somewhere, at some source of inherent or axiomatic meaning. This is true of all things that are connected with being/existing (also known as the transcendentals - classically known as "Truth", "Goodness" and "Beauty"). ---- † I presume here the author means "natural philosophy" by "science" not its broader meaning of "knowing" since that would be presuming the consequent.