Tells about a meeting in Toronto where Bush warned Gorbachev about Lithuania, but showed soon afterwards that this was without meaning.
It derived from an idea, articulated by Albert Camus in 1942, that, in a world of shattered beliefs, life was without meaning.
How, as a historian, do you stand on the matter of objectivity? A. There are contentious aspects to the way I tell the story, but I actually don't believe the term "objective" is without meaning.
A debate forms between the religious, who see the death as having a mysterious purpose that God will not divulge, and the skeptics, who think that it happened by chance, and is without meaning.
The contemporary propagandist can employ elaborate social-scientific research facilities, unknown in previous epochs, to conduct opinion surveys and psychological interviews in efforts to learn the symbolic meanings of given signs for given reactors around the world and to discover what signs leave given reactors indifferent because, to them, these signs are without meaning.
Fodor thought that the neo-Darwinists had confused the loyalty oath of modernity — nature is without conscious design, species evolve over time, the emergence of Homo sapiens was without meaning or telos — with blind adherence to the fallacy known as "natural selection".
In other words, "Is 'heterological' heterological?" is without meaning.
("Reasonable" is one of those words that are without meaning until a precedent has been set in the courts).
When writing more carefully, he claims only to be describing a certain "climate," but in any case his bedrock assumptions appear again and again: the world is unknowable and life is without meaning.
Money is without meaning.
