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The Need for and Meaning of Social Ecological Economics [PDF]
Ecological economics has arisen over a period of three decades with a strong emphasis on the essential need to recognise the embeddedness of the economy in the biophysical. However, that element of realism is not matched by an equally well informed social theory.
Spash, Clive L.
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VOCABULARY AND LANGUAGE TEACHING [PDF]
In this paper we have looked at the difference between teaching language structure and teaching vocabulary. We have discussed how counts of frequency alone are not enough to determine what words should be taught.
Abrudan Cristiana
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Will to Live: The Fulfillment of Needs for Meaning and Its Relation to Meaning in Life
One of the purposes of this study is to develop and test the factor structure of a multidimensional Needs for Meaning Scale (NFMS) and another purpose is to investigate the contribution of needs for meaning fulfillment on experiencing meaning in life by ...
Zeynep Merve Ünal
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Building Bridges, Forging New Frontiers: Meaning-Making in Action
The need to experience life as meaningful is fundamental to human nature. Recent years have witnessed a growing sophistication in assessing meaning in life (MIL) and new conceptualizations regarding its place within general models of well-being and ...
Pninit Russo-Netzer
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This paper takes meals, rather than food itself, as its focus. Meals incorporate the project of nutrition into human life, but it is a contingent matter that we nourish ourselves in this way.
Eileen John
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Measuring meaning in life [PDF]
The present studies addressed the need for a comprehensive, economical, and psychometrically adequate measure of existential meaning. In Study 1, principal-axis factor analysis of participants’ responses to popular meaning measures identified five latent
Farsides, Tom, Morgan, Jessica
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Where do meanings come from? [PDF]
What is the relation between the bearer of meaning and the source of meaning, and what is it for something to bear meaning? This essay explores two sets of metaphors: on the first, the bearer of meaning is the source of the meaning, and meaning is ...
Van Wyck, Nathan Robinson
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‘Quine’s Meaning Nihilism: Revisiting Naturalism and Confirmation Method,’ [PDF]
The paper concentrates on an appreciation of W.V. Quine’s thought on meaning and how it escalates beyond the meaning holism and confirmation holism, thereby paving the way for a ‘meaning nihilism’ and ‘confirmation rejectionism’.
Chakraborty, Dr Sanjit
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Spirituality in narratives of meaning
This article forms part of a study which was inspired by the ever-growing need for significance expressed both by my life coaching and pastoral therapy clients as well as the need for existential meaning reported both in the lay press and academic ...
Francois Wessels, Julian C. Müller
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In the psychiatric field, since the first decades of the XX century, some phenomenologically-oriented authors pointed out the importance of gathering patients’ experience of illness and meaning making.
Lucia Zannini, Katia Daniele
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