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“So the ultimate dilemma is this: Everything has its meaning given in terms of its context; but ‘the whole’ has no context, therefore it can have no meaning. That does not imply that we can prove that the universe has no meaning in any absolute sense – for to do that one would need to see it in context (which we can’t do) and show that it was not connected with its context. It simply means that there is no way of knowing whether the whole has meaning or not. The most fundamental question of all, therefore, has no answer.”
― Mel R. Thompson, The Philosophers Beach Book