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No cosmic plan

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Neither objective nor subjective

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Nebulosity

“Nebulosity” means “cloud-like-ness.” Meaningness is cloud-like. It is real, but impossible to completely pin down.Nebulosity is the key to understanding confusions about meaningness. That is a central...

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Misunderstanding meaningness makes many miserable

I was inspired to write this book when I saw many of my friends struggling with the question “what is my true purpose in life?”

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Meaningness: the complete stance

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Meaningfulness and meaninglessness

Some things are meaningful; some are meaningless. Some are vaguely in-between.This is our constant, natural experience in everyday life. It is only in religion, spirituality, and philosophy that people...

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Meaning and meaninglessness

This book is based on the idea that meaning can be real but nebulous: ambiguous, variable, and context-dependent. This is an uncommon stance.

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Fixation and denial

There are two fundamental ways to try to reject nebulosity: by fixating or denyingmeaningness.

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Extreme examples, eternalism and nihilism

Why would anyone want to claim that everything is meaningful, or that everything is meaningless, defying our everyday experience that some things are meaningful and some not?Here I’ll give an example...

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Confused stances come in pairs

Confusedstances are strategies for avoiding accepting nebulosity. Each confused stance applies the basic methods of fixation and denial to different aspects of meaningness.This means that these wrong...

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Completing the counterculture war

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At the Mountains of Meaningness

Across centuries and continents, mountains are major sources of meaning—of inspiration and insight—for human beings. Why is that?

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Adopting, committing, accomplishing, wavering, appropriating

A stance is a basic attitude toward meaningness. A stance is a tool for understanding, from which you may act. This pages defines a series of terms that describe ways you can take up such a tool.

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Accepting nebulosity resolves confusions about meaning

The core of this book is a method for resolving confusions about meaningness.

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No middle way

Wrong ideas about meaningness show up as pairs of polarized, opposite stances. These appear to be extreme views. Surely the truth can be found somewhere between?Unfortunately, no. The error underlying...

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