{"id":4917,"date":"2024-07-04T14:19:47","date_gmt":"2024-07-04T21:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/?p=4917"},"modified":"2024-07-04T14:20:52","modified_gmt":"2024-07-04T21:20:52","slug":"on-the-meaning-of-meaning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/2024\/07\/04\/on-the-meaning-of-meaning\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Meaning of &#8220;Meaning&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/aeon.co\/essays\/on-breaking-philosophy-out-of-the-seminar-and-back-into-the-world?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&amp;utm_campaign=ff3d438727-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2024_07_04&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_-0f6af19dd8-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D\">This article<\/a> seems to suggest that the author&#8217;s experience with academic philosophy has contributed nothing of value to his practice of doing philosophy in the real world. If so, I think it agrees with what the Harvard professor he quotes really meant. To me the linguistic turn is far from &#8220;played out&#8221;. It provides the only real insight that I ever gained from reading philosophers &#8211; namely that we can&#8217;t resolve conflicts about how to answer questions before agreeing on what those questions mean. And the meaning of &#8220;meaning&#8221; is a case in point.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/aeon.co\/essays\/on-breaking-philosophy-out-of-the-seminar-and-back-into-the-world?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&amp;utm_campaign=ff3d438727-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2024_07_04&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_-0f6af19dd8-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D\">On breaking philosophy out of the seminar and back into the world | Aeon Essays<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article seems to suggest that the author&#8217;s experience with academic philosophy has contributed nothing of value to his practice of doing philosophy in the real world. If so, I think it agrees with what the Harvard professor he quotes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/2024\/07\/04\/on-the-meaning-of-meaning\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4917"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4920,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4917\/revisions\/4920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}