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Language

Language itself is a source of meaning Words often mean more than they mean. Sometimes the surplus or transcendent meaning is symbolic as in myth, or rhetorical as in political text, or motivational as in graduation speeches, or inspirational as in prayers. And...

Linguistic Differentiations

Linguistic differentiations provide a source of semantic variations that constitute a web of related phenomena and meanings. In order to find the source of linguistic differentiations we ask: What words or notions are closely related to the phenomenon that we study?...

Metaphors

Apt metaphors can make visible aspects of human experience. Nietzsche observed that all language, and therefore all truth and error, is metaphoric in origin. Virtually every word we utter originally derives from some image, thereby betraying its metaphoric genesis. So...

Sayings

Sayings, proverbs, expressions, and idiomatic phrases can be sources of phenomenological meaning. Sayings and idiomatic phrases can be helpful sources for phenomenological meaning. They may reveal something about the experience they are used to describe. For example,...