Life Meaning and Sign Meaning

IF 0.5 3区哲学 0 PHILOSOPHY

Philosophical Papers Pub Date : 2018-09-02 DOI:10.1080/05568641.2018.1424027

Charles A. Repp

引用次数: 8

Abstract

Abstract Philosophers once dismissed questions about meaning in life as conceptually confused. Only language and related phenomena, it was thought, can have meaning; thus, to ask about the meaning of life is to misapply the concept. Recent work by Susan Wolf, Thaddeus Metz, Aaron Smuts, and others has brought new attention and respectability to the topic. However, while talk of life meaning is no longer considered nonsense, most theorists continue to assume that such talk has nothing to do with meaning in the ‘sign’ sense that applies to language. In this paper I argue that this assumption is not well justified and that reflection on the example of Sherlock Holmes's life can help us to see why.

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生命意义和符号意义

抽象哲学家曾经认为关于生命意义的问题在概念上是混乱的。人们认为，只有语言和相关现象才有意义；因此，对生命意义的追问就是对生命概念的误用。Susan Wolf、Thaddeus Metz、Aaron Smuts和其他人最近的工作为这个话题带来了新的关注和尊重。然而，尽管关于生命意义的讨论不再被认为是无稽之谈，但大多数理论家仍然认为，这种讨论与适用于语言的“符号”意义无关。在本文中，我认为这种假设是不合理的，对夏洛克·福尔摩斯生活的反思可以帮助我们了解原因。

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