Many theorists take the view that literal meaning can be one of a number of factors to be weighed in reaching a legal interpretation. Still others regard literal meaning as having the potential to legally justify a particular outcome. Building on the scholarly response to HLA Hart’s famous ‘vehicles in the park’ hypothetical, this article presents a formal argument that literal meaning cannot b...

viktor frankl, a neurologist and the founder of logo-therapy (1969) stated that “will to meaning” is the basic essence of the universe (1). logo-therapy means therapy through meaning, which is based on the premise that man has a will-to-meaning; the meaning thus lies in suffering(2). one of the most important human functions is discovering meaning in life, which is also considered as a sign of ...

The past few years have seen quite a bit of speculation over relevance theorists’ commitment to Fodorian semantics as a means to account for the notion of encoded lexical meaning that they put forth in their framework. In this paper, I take on the issue, arguing that this view of lexical semantics compromises Relevance Theory’s aim of psychological plausibility, since it effectively binds it wi...

claimant and defendant’s presence has different consequences and sanctions if the legislator said that their default is not an obstacle for proceeding. current remedy is annulling the claim or default judgment. this remedy is different in the previous islamic law and our past laws and french law. the notion of presence in islamic law is personal presence and so is different from its current not...

Ecological psychology is built on a perception-oriented ontology. The primary focus has been explaining the perception and action behavior of individual animals. To accommodate social phenomena within ecological approach, it necessary to expand ontology, however theorists have unclear about how do this. paper presents negative argument positive programmatic outline. against use term ‘social aff...

The goal of this article is to show how Dōgen’s views language, perhaps the most “mystical” part his thought at first glance, can be interpreted in a framework that wholly rational broader sense word. Dōgen belongs pansemioticist tradition and indeed maintains being tantamount signification, but unlike previous pansemioticists, such as Kūkai, he does not posit signifying subjective Other whom “...