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Originally Posted by kahljorn
How are memories, narrative stories, histories and future aspirations meaningful? Objectively and truthfully, they are meaningless.
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And how are they objective? My entire point (and yours) is that meaning is necessarily subjective, and what we do over the course of our lives creates that meaning.
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That's what sethomas was talking about when he said existence proceeds essence. Existence proceeds meaning is pretty similar ... It's also a statement that meaning only exists subjectively.
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Well, exactly.