Are they exactly the same thing?
I think not.
Meaning is more meaningful than definition.
What is the big picture?
How does everything fit together?
How do we fit into the higher scheme of things?
Those questions are far different than
“What is the definition of life?”
“What is the definition of a human being?”
“What is the ultimate definition of the universe?”
Those sorts of questions can be answered by looking in a dictionary, or defining them yourself.
To deny that there is some general overall sensefulness is to claim that all is confused.
I think reality makes sense when we are not confused.
Its by looking for a SPECIFIC truth or meaning that we get confused.
We need to be looking for some overall undefinable shared essence.
No matter what we learn through philosophy and logic, there always remains a sense of some unknown. Some puzzle. Some unbreakable veil.
I feel like I can feel it. It feels something like a forgotten memory. Like this world is this strange confusing and painful dream of forgetfulness. Yet if I just stop. Just stop and pay the utmost attention. And just remember. Really try and reason and hold my bias down… where am I? What is this place? What is this sense of me? Those are just extensions of an even more basic question. A question beyond words. The pure sense of ?. A clear?. A pure wonder and awe.
The most basic truth. A truth which is prior to language and conception. (or an isness rather)
Whats the difference between making sense of the world and making meaning of the world?
Again, how can we make sense of something meaningless (if that is indeed the case, which most philosophers tend to think it is).
And isn’t claiming that the world makes no sense, the same as claiming the world is illogical? Isn’t that an unreasonable claim?