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The boundaries of Absurdity
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"An absurdity is a thing that is extremely unreasonable, so as to be foolish or
not taken seriously, or the state of being so."
In philosophy, "the Absurd" refers to the conflict between the human tendency to seek inherent value and meaning in life, and the human inability to find any in a purposeless, meaningless or chaotic and irrational universe. The universe and the human mind do not each separately cause the Absurd, but rather, the Absurd arises by the contradictory nature of the two existing simultaneously.
Absurdity means therefore something absurd or nonsensical. This can be an extraordinary, abstruse, logic-defying or strange occurrence or phenomenon, to which the mind of the individual, contrary to its habit, can not give any sense, any meaning. Where does this inability come from to leave things free from sense?