[MD] Free Will

craigerb at comcast.net craigerb at comcast.net
Thu Jun 23 22:50:59 PDT 2011


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> 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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