Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
What I am trying to get at with all these entries is pure and original way of expressing, of curating pure emergence that does not lapse into the duality of discourse, but, koan-like, shines its meaning as it is beheld. One too many syllables means disruption.
Meaning is what counts. The surrounding context in which something can count is the vital requirement for meaning to count for anything.
Ian Cheng • Emissary's Guide To Worlding
Meanings, to have value outside one’s own private realm of experience, have to make sense to other people.
Jill Stephen • Writing Analytically, 5th Edition
pragmatics (the conveying of meaning by uttering sentences in specific contexts).
Geoffrey K. Pullum • Linguistics: Why It Matters
and meaning? It’s the thing that strengthens our resolve, our will.
Brianna Wiest • The Life That's Waiting
Mid-century existentialist movement
Started with nihilism
Existence precedes essence - Jean-Paul Sartre (Opposite of Plato - who thinks productivity exists regardless)
Man’s search for meaning - Viktor Frankl
Noticing / Sensemaking
Jason Shen • 3 cards
We’ve meant something. It’s all meant something.
Brandon Sanderson • The Well of Ascension: Book Two of Mistborn
Meaning is only experienced in motion.