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Meaningness

Meaningness

Meaningness

Accepting nebulosity resolves confusions about meaning
Adopting, committing, accomplishing, wavering, appropriating
Confused stances come in pairs
Extreme examples, eternalism and nihilism
Fixation and denial
Meaningfulness and meaninglessness
Meaningness: the complete stance
Misunderstanding meaningness makes many miserable
Nebulosity
No cosmic plan
No middle way
Not a general dialectic
Pattern
Preview: eternalism and nihilism
The puzzle of meaningness
What is meaningness?

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  • Meaningness
    • Why meaningness?
      • An appetizer: purpose
      • Preview: eternalism and nihilism
      • What is meaningness?
      • Misunderstanding meaningness makes many miserable
      • Acknowledgements
    • Stances: responses to meaningness
      • Stances trump systems
      • Stances are unstable
      • Fixation and denial
      • Nebulosity
      • Pattern
      • Confused stances come in pairs
      • No middle way
      • Accepting nebulosity resolves confusions about meaning
        • Not a general dialectic
      • Confusion, completion, misery and joy
      • Adopting, committing, accomplishing, wavering, appropriating
    • Resolving confusions about meaningness
      • Schematic overview: all dimensions
      • The Big Three stance combinations
      • Meaning and meaninglessness
        • Schematic overview: meaningness
        • The puzzle of meaningness
        • Meaningfulness and meaninglessness
        • Extreme examples, eternalism and nihilism
        • Eternalism
          • Kitsch
          • Armed eternalism
        • Nihilism
          • Spam from God
          • Wavering nihilism: emotional dynamics
        • Meaningness: the complete stance
        • No cosmic plan
      • Unity and diversity
        • Schematic overview: unity and diversity
        • Boundaries, objects, and connections
        • Monism
          • Critiques of monism
            • The dualist critique of monism
            • The nihilist critique of monism
            • The complete stance’s critique of monism
        • Dualism
        • Participation
      • Purpose
        • Schematic overview: purpose
        • Mission
        • Materialism
        • Enjoyable usefulness
      • Self
        • Schematic overview: self
        • The true self
        • Selflessness
        • Intermittently continuing
      • Personal value
        • Schematic overview: value
        • Specialness
        • Ordinariness
        • Nobility
      • Capability
        • Schematic overview: capability
        • Total responsibility
        • Victim-think
        • Light-heartedness
      • Ethics
        • Schematic overview: ethics
        • Ethical totalitarianism
        • Ethical nihilism
        • Ethical responsiveness
      • Authority
        • Schematic overview: authority
        • Reasonable respectability
        • Romantic rebellion
        • Freedom
      • Sacredness
        • Schematic overview: sacredness
        • Religiosity
        • Secularism
        • Kadag
      • Contingency
        • Schematic overview: contingency
        • Causality
        • Chaos
        • Flow
    • Appendix: Terminology
      • Terminology: Complete
      • Terminology: Emptiness and form, nebulosity and pattern
      • Terminology: Non-dual

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  • Monism
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  • Nobility
  • Ordinariness
  • Participation
  • Purity
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  • Self
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