Sense

In spanish, the word sense -- sentido -- designates both: direction and meaning. For example, in Parra's poem Soliloquio del Individuo, we read in the last line of the poem: Pero no: la vida no tiene sentido. This can be translated as "But no: life has no meaning," as well as "But no: life has no direction."

Life, insofar as it ends, creates meaning. A gradient of glucose is for a cell an environment where in one side there is life and in the other there is death. In this way, a basic kind of logic appears in the world. In one side, p, on the other, no-p.

Science has tried to understand meaning in terms of logic, in terms of logos. The discourse, the voice, that speaks reason.

Wittgenstein is an exemplary case. His understanding of the world as everything that is the case, and the case as the existence of atomic facts, in the final stance is build as the solid foundation where to ground living. For the question in him is always how to live a proper life.

The attempt is in itself madness. The madness of a world in war, of Europe eating herself raw and naked. As such, condemned to fail.