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"Dead Souls" and "Open Vessel." Is There a Need for a "New" Meaning of the Hebrew Word nefeš?

open access: yesVerbum Vitae, 2022
The noun nefeš is ascribed the sense of “corpse” in several instances of the Hebrew Bible. All of them are analysed to trace the possible development of the semantic field of this word.
Janusz Lemański
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Psychological aspects of formation of ecologically relevant behavior of students of the faculty of agriculture [PDF]

open access: yesE3S Web of Conferences, 2020
The article provides an analysis of studies showing the need for a psychological approach of meaning building and meaning regulation in the formation of an integral worldview, environmental values and environmentally relevant behavior of agriculture ...
Azarko Elena, Kupriyanov Igor
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Meaning making in cancer survivors: a focus group study. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2013
BACKGROUND: Confrontation with a life-threatening disease like cancer can evoke existential distress, which can trigger a search for meaning in people after having survived this disease.
Nadia van der Spek   +6 more
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Perceived meaning of life and satisfaction with life: A research synthesis using an online finding archive

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2023
Introduction“Meaning” and “happiness” are leading topics in positive psychology, but their relationship is not well understood. The first step to better understanding is to inspect the pattern of correlations found in the research literature ...
Yomna Sameer   +3 more
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Will to Live: The Fulfillment of Needs for Meaning and Its Relation to Meaning in Life

open access: yesİstanbul Gelişim Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, 2020
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

open access: yesSocial Sciences, 2023
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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Meals, Art and Meaning

open access: yesCrítica, 2021
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]

open access: yes, 2009
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]

open access: yes, 2018
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]

open access: yes, 2017
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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