I am not my genome. You cannot understand my desires or preferences, the trajectory of my life, nor my plans for the future from my DNA. Yes, in time more of what will be offered to treat me with will be shaped by my molecular biology, and for that I am profoundly thankful. But personalized medicine is not defined in the base pairs of my double helix, nor in the methylation pattern of my epigen...

one of the important questions considered in every theory of interpretation regards unity versus plurality of the true meaning of the text. this paper, as a descriptive-critical research built on data collection and library documents, has tried to get help from the principles derived from sciences such as linguistics, hermeneutics and principles of jurisprudence, in order to demonstrate that th...

what is the true nature of meaning? what is its status? what are differences between meaning, concept, referent and fact? is meaning mental or extra-mental or neither? these are fundamental questions on the nature and ontology of meaning.meaning is identified with concept by some, confused with referent by others. some scholars have not distinguished meaning from referent and fact. still anothe...