thomblake comments on The Meaning of Life - LessWrong

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Comment author: thomblake 17 September 2010 10:00:15PM 3 points [-]

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"?

Comment author: Liron 18 September 2010 02:17:11AM 4 points [-]

I think dissolving the question actually consists of answering "What is 'the meaning of life'?"

Comment author: [deleted] 17 September 2010 10:54:58PM 1 point [-]

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.