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Complexity, variation and meaning: an integrated view on language and cognition

Gragoatá, 2020
The complexity of the linguistic system, the variability of meaning and the interindividuality of human cognition are intimately related. By examining language in its effective usage, we cannot help but recognize its great variability and heterogeneity ...
Augusto Soares da Silva
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The need for Understanding the Meaning of Adult Education [PDF]

Journal of Islamic Studies, 1978
one of the reasons of the failing of adult education is that its definition is not clear, or precise. As a matter of fact the people who work in the field of adult education prefer the scientific approach when they are trying to define the adult ...
Abdulrahman Hamidi
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Features of the need for achievement among managers at different levels of the management hierarchy

Russian Journal of Education and Psychology
Background. This study is devoted to a comparative analysis of the interrelations of achievement needs among leaders of different levels: middle managers, deputies, and directors.
Elena A. Lebedeva
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Linguistic Interventions and Transformative Communicative Disruption [PDF]

, 2020
What words we use, and what meanings they have, is important. We shouldn't use slurs; we should use 'rape' to include spousal rape (for centuries we didn’t); we should have a word which picks out the sexual harassment suffered by people in the workplace ...
Sterken, Rachel Katharine
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Commentary: Public Health and Civil Liberties in an Era of Bioterrorism [PDF]

, 2002
Safeguarding the public\u27s health, safety, and security took on new meaning and urgency after the attacks on the World Trade Towers in New York and the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., on September 11, 2001. The subsequent intentional dispersal of anthrax
Gostin, Lawrence O.
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Reading for meaning: The need for urgent intervention for sustainability

Reading & Writing
No abstract available.
Chinaza Uleanya
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Meaning, moral realism, and the importance of morality [PDF]

, 2020
Many philosophers have suspected that the normative importance of morality depends on moral realism. In this paper, I defend a version of this suspicion: I argue that if teleological forms of moral realism, those that posit an objective purpose to human ...
Zhao, Michael
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Compositionality in Davidson’s Early Work

Journal for the History of Analytical Philosophy, 2019
Davidson’s 1965 paper, “Theories of Meaning and Learnable Languages”, has (at least almost) invariably been interpreted, by others and by myself, as arguing that natural languages must have a compositional semantics, or at least a systematic semantics ...
Peter Pagin
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The dynamics of meaning in mosque architecture: A case study of old and modern mosques in West Java Indonesia

ARTEKS : Jurnal Teknik Arsitektur, 2022
Humans are homo religiosus with a natural desire that there is an absolute power beyond reasoning which makes them "existent". This is observed from their religious behaviors as well as the continuous increase in their spirituality.
Indri Astrina Fitria Indrarani Wirakusumah
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The Need for and Meaning of Social Ecological Economics [PDF]

, 2017
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.
Spash, Clive L.
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