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- 1From:Environmental Values (Vol. 22, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedABSTRACT Although Cottingham and Holland make a persuasive case for the claim that it is difficult to situate a meaningful life within a Darwinian naturalistic cosmology, this paper argues that their case should be...
- 2From:Harvard Theological Review (Vol. 111, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedAbstract One of the most frequently occurring terms in Paul Tillich's theology is meaning (in his English writings) or Sinn (in his German writings). But Tillich used both in multiple senses, without acknowledging or...
- 3From:Papers on Language & Literature (Vol. 55, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe decolonization/decoloniality of the twenty-first century should not be confused with postmodernism and postcolonialism, which cascaded from the powerful Euro-North American academies as well as from the influence of...
- 4From:HTS Teologiese Studies (Vol. 76, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThe book of Jonah uses four indications of time: (1) Jonah spends 3 days and three nights in the fish; (2) the city of Nineveh takes 3 days to cross; (3) Jonah enters the city to the extent or distance of one day's...
- 5From:Foundations of Science (Vol. 21, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThis paper draws on an in-depth phenomenological analysis of some interviews taken from volunteers, inviting them to reflect on their lived experiences of meaningfulness in the context of volunteering and citizenship....
- 6From:Linguistic and Philosophical Investigations (Vol. 10) Peer-ReviewedThe purpose of this paper will be to supply a brief overview of Wittgenstein's philosophical views on music. The theory that we shall seek to elaborate here puts considerable emphasis on the concept of musical...
- 7From:Journal of Biblical Literature (Vol. 138, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedWhat is available to text interpreters is never meaning but meaning potential. That potential is accessed culturally. A culturally responsive engagement with text meaning potential has profound implications for the...
- 8From:Organization Studies (Vol. 16, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedThis paper discusses the popularity of postmodernism in social and organizational studies. It is argued that the word conflates quite different social phenomena and lines of development, and theoretical and philosophical...
- 9From:South Atlantic Review (Vol. 72, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedOne of Quevedo's most famous letrillas, "The Lord of Dollars" ("Poderoso Caballero es Don Dinero"), promises to recount the details of the relationship between a female speaker and her male lover, Don Dinero. (1) In the...
- 10From:Philosophy East and West (Vol. 44, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedMimamsa provides an influential theory of language within Indian philosophy. According to this theory, the sentence is the basic unit of language, with words as secondary units. Meaning is determined by the context of...
- 11From:The Qualitative Report (Vol. 22, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedI write this auto-ethnography as homage to my teachers and peers, both in the classroom and in scholarly realms, who inspired me to soar beyond the horizons of self and find meaning within the cosmic consciousness that...
- 12From:The Literary Review (Vol. 53, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedSelected and translated from Danish by Martin Aitken From Hvordan de ser ud (How They Look), 1987. Why don't I just sit down to write that story, just anything at all--it's night in Port-au-Prince, it's been...
- 13From:The Review of Metaphysics (Vol. 63, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedOn Epistemic Conceptions of Meaning: Use, Meaning and Normativity, DANIEL WHITING Many philosophers hold that for an expression to possess meaning is for there to be norms governing its use. By combining this with a...
- 14From:Journal of Tolkien Research (Vol. 13, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedPresented at the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association National Conference, New Orleans, LA, April 3, 2015. Introduction On February 13, 2007 a poster to the Lord of the Rings Fanatics Forum named...
- 15From:Duke Law Journal (Vol. 63, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedII. THE MEANING OF MEANING FOR THE FIRST AMENDMENT The discussion up until this point has described an important but underexplored category of speech--nonsense--and made a preliminary case for its constitutional...
- 16From:Mind (Vol. 105, Issue 417) Peer-ReviewedKnowledge of reference is necessary for understanding. The supposed counterexample offered by Alex Byrne and Michael Thau does not threaten this view, because they do not describe a case of understanding, although the...
- 17From:Journal for the Study of Religions and Ideologies (Vol. 15, Issue 43) Peer-ReviewedWittgenstein's remark to Drury that he looks at philosophical problems from a religious point of view has greatly puzzled commentators. The paper argues that the readings given by commentators Malcolm, Winch and Labron...
- 18From:Mind (Vol. 106, Issue 422) Peer-ReviewedDavidson's thesis that linguistic meaning is autonomous is undermined by the existence of illocutionary force indicators, as proposed by Frege and others. Frege's account is modified so that a force indicator is an...
- 19From:Romanian Journal of Artistic Creativity (Vol. 8, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedPhenomenology and poetics are two epistemological approaches which aspire, each in its own way, to apprehend reality by getting access to its primary essences. While poetics, from Aristotle to postmodernism, has...
- 20From:Foundations of Science (Vol. 21, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIn this comment-response Mikael Lindfelt makes some suggestions to how one could develop the argument for wit(h)nessing as experiencing meaningfulness in life as put forward by Nicole Note and Emilie Van Deale. While...