/lit/ - Literature

>>11129951
>nihilistic
>Believing in nothing, or the unknowability of all things.
>materialist
>Believing in an external world which we can access indirectly via our senses and gain an understanding of through Natural Philosophy™.
>nihilistic materialist
>Believing in nothing but also something, or believing that you can't know anything but also that you can know a lot(?)
This isn't a real worldview. Peterson assumes that, because nihilists and materialists share some conclusions, their systems of thought are related somehow, but nothing could be further from the truth. He's railing against a nonexistent enemy.

>>10845783
Read Wittgenstein.
>P1) Meaning is use.
>P2) Use is determined by individuals and groups.
>C1) Meaning is determined by individuals and groups.
>P3) Individuals and groups form society.
>C2) Meaning is determined by society.
>P4) If a thing is determined by society, then it is socially constructed.
>C3) Meaning is socially constructed.
Of course, this is the meaning of words, not "meaning" in the sense Peterson uses it, but similar arguments apply. Significance isn't inherent to any action or state of affairs; it gets ascribed to it by people. Significance (what Peterson calls "meaning") is also socially constructed. It's demonstrably true.