The Meaning of Sense

Does the Being in question possess the capacity to exist independently of any historical sense attributed to human life? Does it have a direction, a meaning, an explanation, a raison d’être, a foundation, a destiny, or a purpose governed by a logic transcending the human condition? Or can everything ultimately be reduced to chance? These are precisely the questions that Ludwig Wittgenstein avoids addressing—and they are undoubtedly the most compelling ones, the very issues that most forcefully seize our attention. Yet it remains necessary to ask whether the very notion of “sense” possesses any intrinsic meaning at all. As Emil Cioran once observed: “To wake up startled, wondering whether the word ‘sense’ has any meaning, and then to be astonished that one cannot fall back asleep.”

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