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Fulfillment and Fitting Fulfillment

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Susan Wolf argues that meaning arises when subjective attraction meets objective attractiveness. Whereas we can agree with her claim that the conception of meaning invokes an objective standard, we think it is questionable whether a radically subjective fulfillment is a real possibility. Several reasons are provided why this cannot be the case.

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Correspondence to Arnold Burms.

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Burms, A. Fulfillment and Fitting Fulfillment. Found Sci 21, 271–273 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10699-014-9385-8

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