What Do You Mean When You Talk About Meaning (of Life, That is)?

[Kendel]

@Klax and I are comrades. I felt open enough with him to speak my mind. He was a gentleman about it, too.

When the time is right I can manage to hold my tongue in spite of string of barbs, under-handed digs and back-handed compliments. Just let the person keep digging.

[heymike3]

@Kendel

back-handed compliments

I hope you wouldn’t see what I said that way… but I wouldn’t fault you for it either

[heymike3]

@Kendel

in spite of string of barbs, under-handed digs

Asking about what you see as the most important things in conversation about meaning is hardly underhanded

[heymike3]

That book I mentioned debating five views on the knowledge of God, has a great introduction. In the book each participant will consider their view in relation to natural theology, divine hiddenness, and what caught my attention with respect to a reoccurring topic here, epistemic peer disagreement.

“What should a subject do if she believes that p, but her friend, who she judges to be just as smart and knowledgeable as she is, believes ¬p? Is she rational to continue to believe that p with the same level of credence that she does now? Or should she give equal weight to her epistemic peer and significantly decrease her credence in her belief that p, perhaps to the point of suspending her belief altogether?”

“Debating Christian Religious Epistemology: An Introduction to Five Views on the Knowledge of God” by John M. DePoe, Tyler Dalton McNabb