To enable a more accurate and effective relationship with meaningness through developing a more sophisticated understanding of what it means for something to be objective, subjective, or interactive.
To help understand the appeal of mistaken, subjective theories of meaning, such as existentialism. To free ourselves from the misunderstanding that meaning is not objective and therefore doesn’t exist, or that it is so defective that it might as well not. We’ll have three goals for investigating objectivity of meaning, here and in more detailed discussions later: Often it means “more objective for our current purposes than the available alternatives here.” Whether something counts as “objective,” and how objective it is, can depend on what you are trying to do and why. In many cases, that can increase confidence, understanding, and influence. Figuring out what things mean in a more objective way is often possible and worthwhile. Some meanings are more objective than others. It is often better to think about objectivity as a matter of degree. “Subjective” and “interactive” are not clearly-defined, absolute categories either. Something may be objective under one definition but not under another.
It’s a collection of diverse, nebulous intuitions, based in metaphors of experienced activity. “Objectivity” is not a single, clear concept. We evaluate them using reasoning and evidence in ways similar to evaluating claims of fact. Some claims are quite solid, and others are nonsensical. So, we could dismiss nihilist complaints that nothing has any objective meaning, simply by saying “yes, and that isn’t a problem, because it doesn’t imply anything is meaningless.”īut “Rumcake” swept several significant issues under the rug, to simplify the explanation near the beginning of the book.Ī degree of objectivity is possible and important in judging some claims about meanings. “ Rumcake and Rainbows” suggested that meaning is neither objective nor subjective, but interactive. No objective meaning | Meaningness No objective meaning Biscotti (CC) Joey Doll
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