This seems like a complete misunderstanding of my point. I said that noticing where you are confused is important. That’s the stuff you know you don’t know. If you learn related things, it may make it easier to realize you were confused, but it still seems obviously necessary.
People love to throw around the word ‘meaningless’ when they simply don’t understand. This is attempting to short circuit your confusion by pretending there is nothing to understand. This is especially true in epistemology.
For someone’s life to be meaningful is not mere inclination (or no one would need to search for meaning, and many do.) I am sometimes inclined to do things I disapprove of, and if I did them, I would not find them meaningful in this sense. Rather than meaning being mere reality, meaning is found in what you will do with it, because what it will be is intrinsically valuable.
In this sense, love is meaningful, and electromagnetism is not. A smiley face is also not meaningful. Playing with magnets and making someone you love smile is very meaningful.
This seems like a complete misunderstanding of my point. I said that noticing where you are confused is important. That’s the stuff you know you don’t know. If you learn related things, it may make it easier to realize you were confused, but it still seems obviously necessary.
People love to throw around the word ‘meaningless’ when they simply don’t understand. This is attempting to short circuit your confusion by pretending there is nothing to understand. This is especially true in epistemology.
For someone’s life to be meaningful is not mere inclination (or no one would need to search for meaning, and many do.) I am sometimes inclined to do things I disapprove of, and if I did them, I would not find them meaningful in this sense. Rather than meaning being mere reality, meaning is found in what you will do with it, because what it will be is intrinsically valuable.
In this sense, love is meaningful, and electromagnetism is not. A smiley face is also not meaningful. Playing with magnets and making someone you love smile is very meaningful.