PHIL 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: John Wisdom, Logical Positivism
11 Jan 2013
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The meaning of the questions of life john wisdom. If not saying something meaningful, just expressing how they feel. Wisdom doesn t explain much he turns to possible meaning to the questions. Many philosophers got sick and tired of what is the meaning of life? (gets annoying) Every human being has a mother (analogy) Meaning of life is a meaningful question. Looks for different meaning of meanings (ambiguous) Often the word meaning is used to refer to something before/after/outside (example: a fight and one says what is the meaning of this quarrel, meaning what is the cause) The meaning is so common, that if we might think what is the meaning of life meaning? . The meaning of life is afterlife (why?) Saying this life is meaningless, only meaningful if it is preparing for the afterlife. Claims meaning is not the only meaning(s) of meaning. Example: a play and says what does it mean? .
