# Realist Meaning Beyond Nihilism - [ ] 🚧 In Progress 🚧 > Are we not dealing here with the ==analytic assumption that any reality is reducible to a sum total of elements==? Now, though analysis may be the instrument of science, it is also the instrument of humor. If in describing a rugby match, I write, “I saw adults in shorts fighting and throwing themselves on the ground in order to send a leather ball between a pair of wooden posts,” I have summed up what I have *seen,*but I have intentionally missed its meaning. > > [[An Explication of The Stranger by Jean-Paul Sartre]] - [ ] ? When Sartre says such things, is the meaning present in the game applicable to the "meaning of life?" One I might call "a meaning" but the other I might call "purpose." ## References 1. [[An Explication of The Stranger by Jean-Paul Sartre|An Explication of The Stranger by Jean-Paul Sartre]] - https://waxwing.no/sysprv/sartre_explication_stranger.html 2. [[The Intertwining-The Chiasm by Merleau Ponty]] - https://doubleoperative.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/merleau-ponty-the-intertwining.pdf