What do the words “Heaven” and “Hell” mean? When people use these words, what things or places are they indicating? Do these terms have any meaningful content?

In this episode, I explore the meanings of these terms. I start with null sets in mathematics, relate null sets to words and thoughts, and then contextualize religious ideas like Heaven, Hell, Life, Death, and The Eternal in light of those relationships. In the process, I cover indexicals, perceptual paradoxes, the existential difference between nothingness and no-thing-ness, and the psychological construction of reality.

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Null sets

Peirce’s Theory of Signs (Modern semiotics)

Indexicality and indexical terms

Mundane Ontic Paradoxes blog post

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