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Subject: AI-PI investigates "meaning of life"..
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>From: Hakki_Kocabas@kcbbs.gen.nz (Hakki Kocabas)
Date: 19 Feb 92 07:23:27 GMT
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AI PHILOSOPHICAL INVESTIGATOR's QUESTIONAIRE
 
In your use, can you say that a reality corresponds to "meaning of
life" if it is true and we can assert it ?
If yes, so you have a use for "meaning of life"
 
How did you learn the expression "meaning of life" ?
Has anyone explained it to you by refering to sensations, images or
thoughts that accompany hearing "meaning of life" ?
 
In your use of it, is time enter into "meaning of life" ?
Do you use "meaning of life" to make forecasts/predictions ?
 
Would you use "meaning of life" if in its application things were
different ?
 
Is "meaning of life" useful in experience ?
 
Do you want to join different techniques with the use of "meaning
of life" ?
 
Do you want to use "meaning of life" as a projection ?
 
Do you want to make "meaning of life" independent of experience ?
So you want
to lay down "meaning of life" as a foundation which provides a form
of
representation ? a method of description ?
 
I don't know what you mean, tell me exactly what you mean, or else
I may be cheated.
I need to know how it is used, do you know how to use it ?
 
An expression has any amount of use, then how if I tell you 
"meaning of life", can you have the use in your mind in an instant
?
 
Is that "meaning of life" first introduced because of experience
and now you have
made it independent of experience; a rule of expression for talking
about your experiences ?
 
Is it true that you have arranged your notation in such a way that
"meaning of life" is meaningless ? and has been excluded ? Is it
excluded for
experiencial reasons, however the statement that it is impossible
is not an experiencial statement ?
 
When you use "meaning of life" can you say it is impossible ? If
so, is this
a rule of expression ?
Is this "meaning of life" a paradigm/an-object-of-comaprison and
you want to
use it as a model ?
If yes, is it useful ?
        is it useless ?
 
Do you use "meaning of life" as a picture of an experiment ?
 
Do you use "meaning of life" as a standard for the experiment, so
it is non-temporal ?
 
Do you use it as a historic description of an event, so it is
temporal ?
 
Do you use "meaning of life" to construct concepts ?
 
Do you use "meaning of life" to describe objects ?
 
Do you want to fix and teach "meaning of life" as a technique ?
 
Do you want "meaning of life" to serve as a paradigm which is
timeless ?
 
Do you use "meaning of life" as a standard of comparison as a
paradigm for the technique ?
 
Do you want to make up your mind what you want to do with "meaning
of life" ?
 
Before you answer the following questions don't gaze at a form of
words forgetting my asking you what is done with it. Don't gaze to
your own soul to see if two expressions have the same meaning but
gaze how you use it.
 
In your use of "meaning of life" is it meaningful to affix to
"meaning of life" by definition ?
 
Does "meaning of life" have its sense in a system of proofs ?
 
Do you want this sentence "meaning of life" to work ?
 
Would it be true that "meaning of life" make any difference how you
use it later ?
 
Leave alone it's meaning does "meaning of life" have a use ? If not
why don't you eliminate it ? If you do that wouldn't it be a
modification other than closing certain doors ? Would it ?
 
This shows what you do with "meaning of life" : Have you chosen
"meaning of life" to get to a certain point ?
You don't know what "meaning of life" means ? Want to try again ?
 
Does "meaning of life" state part of the picture you form to help
you in the judgement of various situations ?
 
If I pronounce the opposite of that "meaning of life" . would you
regard me as demented ?
 
What is it like to discover that "meaning of life" was a mistake ?
What could a mistake here be like that "meaning of life" ?
 
Is this "meaning of life" supposed to be an empirical proposition
?
 
Is the hypothesis "meaning of life" possible ?
 
Can you say if I am wrong about this "meaning of life", I have no
guarantee that anything I say is true ?
 
Can you say if you are wrong about this "meaning of life", you have
no guarantee that anything you say is true ?
 
What would the practical effects of this belief "meaning of life"
be ?
Is it difficult to imagine why anyone should believe the contrary
?
What could induce you to believe the opposite ?
Can you imagine the opposite of "meaning of life" ?
 
Is this "meaning of life" a fact that you are certain of to be
certain of the meaning of your words ?
 
Can you say everything speaks for "meaning of life" ?
Can you say nothing against "meaning of life" ?
If you doubt that "meaning of life" how would your doubt come out
in practice ?
If it makes no difference at all enjoy your doubt !!!
 
What are you doing in believing that "meaning of life" ?
What are you believing if you believe in  "meaning of life" ?
Can you say that one can only believe that "meaning of life", and
even that one can't believe ?
Why do you believe that "meaning of life" ?
    Have you reasons ?
    Do you need reasons ?
On what ground do you believe that "meaning of life" ?
What does this belief "meaning of life" consist in ?
 
Why should it be possible to have grounds for believing that
"meaning of life" if it isn't possible to be certain ?
 
Can you say: nothing in the world will convince me of the opposite
that "meaning of life" ?
Can you say: for me this fact "meaning of life" is at the bottom of
all knowledge ?
Can you say: I shall give up other things but not this "meaning of
life" ?
Can you say: I can't be wrong about it that "meaning of life" ?
Can you say: I cannot depart from this judgement without toppling
all other judgements with it that "meaning of life" ?
Can you say: I cannot be making mistake about it that "meaning of
life" ?
If your use of that "meaning of life" is not to be a merely an
observation about grammar, can you give the circumstances in which
this expression "meaning of life" functions ?
 
If you doubt that "meaning of life", would you have to doubt all
sorts of things that stands fast for you ?
 
Can you say that "meaning of life" is a hypothesis, which as you
believe, is again and again completely confirmed ?
Are you not ready to let anything count as a disproof of this
expression "meaning of life" ?
 
Here you have arrived at a foundation of all your beliefs, what
would it be like to doubt "meaning of life" ?
What would you believe if you didn't believe that "meaning of life"
?
So far you have no system at all within which this doubt might
exist ? You have arrived at the rock bottom of your convictions ?
and one might almost say that these foundation walls are carried by
the whole house ?
 
Suppose it wasn't true that "meaning of life" ?
How should you imagine the mistake being discovered ?
 
If you know that "meaning of life", do you also know, or do you
only believe, that no future experience will seem to contradict
your knowledge ?
If yes that is after all a decision. It is possible that you will
act against it.
 
ENJOY YOUR "meaning of life" ;-> Hakki.


