this paper tries to describe the way jaspers understands the term ‘existence’. according to jaspers ‘existence is ’ indefinable. if so, how then can it be expressed? not by concepts,but by what jaspers calls ‘signa’. the terms such as ‘existence’, ‘freedom’ and ‘selfhood’ are examples of such ‘signa’. however, ‘signa’ per se have no objectivity for consciousness, no independent meaning. from th...