[MD] Free Will
craigerb at comcast.net
craigerb at comcast.net
Thu Jun 23 22:50:59 PDT 2011
[dmb]
> To ask about the "meaning" of life in the first sense is to ask for the definition of the term "life".
> To ask about the "meaning" of life in the second sense is to ask about the nature of human existence.
It's not just the word 'meaning' that has 2 senses in the above, but also the word 'life'.
The use/mention distinction is fundamental to philosophy, e.g.:
Life has 4 stages.
'Life' has 4 letters.
Craig
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