Re:A Nihilist's Guide to Meaning
by vacuity on Friday July 14, 2023 @05:37PM
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I'm not sure why parent involves abiogenesis, but as they go on to say, surviving and reproducing aren't really purposes (as in motivation) but self-evident truths. Something made to replicate itself into more things that self-replicate and so on.
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Self-evident truths of what exactly?
Surviving and reproducing are facts of live, they are descriptive facts. What you ought to do with your life is not descriptive, but prescriptive.
You cannot derive prescriptive statements from descriptive facts.
I didn't say you could. GP didn't seem to either.
Fair enough, but I felt you implied it by calling them self-evident. That's the sorta phrasing usually used when people try to wrangle meaning out of facts.