A Nihilist's Guide to Meaning

Re:A Nihilist's Guide to Meaning by Drakim on Friday July 14, 2023 @05:45PM (#36730359)

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.

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Re:A Nihilist's Guide to Meaning by vacuity on Friday July 14, 2023 @06:14PM (#36730678)

I didn't say you could. GP didn't seem to either.

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Re:A Nihilist's Guide to Meaning by Drakim on Friday July 14, 2023 @06:28PM (#36730784)

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.

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Re:A Nihilist's Guide to Meaning by vacuity on Friday July 14, 2023 @06:35PM (#36730844)

I guess I have to join advertising or PR now. sobs quietly in corner

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