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I’m happy to be accused of ‘middle-ism’1, but with regard to the question of inherent meaning in/to any things or events2, it seems that meaningfulness is between the extreme on one hand of seeing too little – or no – meaning (nihilism)3, and the extreme on the other of seeing too much meaning (superstition)4. The spectrum seems an honest one. . . . → Read More: meaning Proverbs 22:7 – “The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is the slave of the lender.” A friend recently (and wisely) observed that this is unfortunately ‘heard’/’taken’ as a command rather than as a lamentation. Which made me think about how much interpretation we can do even with simple sentences. The above verse could be (mis)understood in the . . . → Read More: reading The mind/matter issue is centuries old, and is probably here to stay. The philosophy of naturalism says that mind is not a distinct category of existence (ontology), but is rather some kind of emergent property or state of purely material elements. It actually proposes not that matter ‘makes’ or ‘gives way to’ mind, but that mind actually is nothing more . . . → Read More: mind over matter |
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