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From: vaissier@efrei.fr (Amaury de la Vaissiere)
Subject: >>>>Existence's way (and not meaning)!!!!
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Date: Wed, 19 Oct 1994 10:30:22 GMT
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Dear reader,

I would like to bring a precision on what I meant by the search for existence's
 meaning in my last article: >>>>On the meaning of existence!!!!

Language is sometimes confusing. Someone remarked that the question of
 existence's objective meaning has almost no interest. Indeed. But, in my
 last article, I badly translated the word "meaning".

I wanted to translate the french word "sens", which has two significations.
 It is "meaning" but also "way". Unfortunatly, I didn't know that "meaning"
 in English had not the second signification.

So, what I meant was that a "sens" is a way, an opinion, a direction, a path
 to follow, something to do (because something existent is, to me, something
 that can interact).

"objective" is, for me, what makes every one (having enough knowldege) agree.
 For example: If you let a rock fall above a pool of water it will make the
 sound "PLOUF". But if I say: this computer is made entirely fom sand, metal
 an plastic, 1/10 of the human population will not agree because they don't
 have enough knowldege about computers.

So, for me, to look for "the objective meaning of existence" is to search
 for the action(s) that all the existing things would agree to achieve.
 What I hope is that these "actions" are like "a basic property" of our
 universe. Therefore science could help us to find them.. 

Amaury.

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