Something about how I tried to communicate this here bothered me and it took me a while to figure it out. I wanted to point to something like ‘be a confucian naturalist about meaning’ i.e. observing your own meaning making process the same way you’d watch an unknown species of animal. But the way I said it more implied that there is a pre-existing right answer which cuts directly against that sort of mental stance.
Something about how I tried to communicate this here bothered me and it took me a while to figure it out. I wanted to point to something like ‘be a confucian naturalist about meaning’ i.e. observing your own meaning making process the same way you’d watch an unknown species of animal. But the way I said it more implied that there is a pre-existing right answer which cuts directly against that sort of mental stance.