PHLA11H3 Lecture 2: Philosophy lecture 2
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The meaning of life: life has no meaning. That does not mean that your life cannot be full of meaning. But being alive itself does not have a meaning. It"s important to see why this realise should now stop anyone from leading a meaningful life. Sisyphus: was condemned to push a boulder to the top of a hill, and he had to push it back up over and over as it fell back down forever. Many believe their own lives follow a similar path of the same routine everyday. Only propositions are true or false; arguments are sound or unsound; and if deductive, valid or unvalid. Valid =df such that the premises entail the conclusion. No argument compels; you always have a choice. An unsound deduction can be a sound induction. The socrates example can be inductive argument if we say that he is the typical man though it doesn"t prove anything.
