Tag
Meaning
Entries tagged meaning.
5 entries
Existentialism
There is no fixed human essence handed down in advance; we exist first and then, through free choice, make ourselves what we are, and must invent our own meaning in a world that supplies none.
11 min
ThinkerLudwig Wittgenstein
The philosopher who twice tried to dissolve philosophy itself: first by drawing the limits of what language can picture, then by showing that meaning is not picturing at all but use.
13 min
TraditionPragmatism
The meaning and truth of an idea lie in its practical consequences: a belief is a rule for action, and inquiry, not correspondence to a fixed reality, is where knowledge is settled.
10 min
ConceptSense and Reference
An expression carries two things at once: what it points at in the world (its reference) and the way it presents that thing (its sense).
9 min
Thought experimentThe Brain in a Vat
How could you tell, from the inside, that you are not a disembodied brain in a tank being fed a lifelike stream of fake experience?
8 min