What is the meaning of life?
My usual response is that it is a category mistake (a type mismatch, for the CS nerds), or to interpret the question as:
What is the meaning of “life”?
I think dissolving the question actually consists of answering “What is ‘the meaning of life’?”
But “What is the meaning of life?” is a completely different question, semantically, from “What is the meaning of “life”?”. It isn’t just a type mismatch.
My usual response is that it is a category mistake (a type mismatch, for the CS nerds), or to interpret the question as:
I think dissolving the question actually consists of answering “What is ‘the meaning of life’?”
But “What is the meaning of life?” is a completely different question, semantically, from “What is the meaning of “life”?”. It isn’t just a type mismatch.