Contra an expanding number of deflationary commentators on Wittgenstein, I argue that philosophical questions about meaning are meaningful and that Wittgenstein gave us ample reason to believe so. Deflationists are right in claiming that Wittgenstein rejected the sceptical problem about meaning allegedly to be found in his later writings and also right in stressing Wittgenstein’s anti-reduction...

Occupational calling is a transcendent summons that originates externally to carry out a particular life role (work) in a manner that demonstrates meaningfulness and holds other-oriented values and goals as the main sources of motivation. The aim of the current study is to advance the study of individual differences in achieving occupational calling at workplace. Every individual varies in the ...

Multilevel semantics has been proposed as a powerful architecture for semantic analysis. We propose a methodology that, while maintaining the generality of the multilevel approach, is able to establish formal constraints over the possible ways to organize the level hierarchy. More precisely, we propose a "strong" version of the multilevel approach in which a level can be defined if and only if ...

INTRODUCTION Effectiveness of Alzheimer's disease (AD) treatments is commonly evaluated with coprimary outcomes; cognition with function to ensure clinical meaningfulness of a cognitive effect. METHODS We reviewed the literature for functional outcomes in mild AD or mild cognitive impairment (MCI) patients (distinct from combined mild-moderate/severe AD) treated with approved AD drugs. Cognit...

According to modern religious studies, religions are rooted in certain metaphorical representations, so they are metaphorical in nature. This article aims to show, first, how conceptual metaphors employ image schemas to make our language meaningful, and then to assert that image-schematic structure of religious expressions, by which religious metaphors conceptualize abstract meanings, is the ba...