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What's in a Name: The Meaning of Meaninglessness in Telefolmin
Author(s) -
JORGENSEN DAN
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
ethos
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.783
H-Index - 44
eISSN - 1548-1352
pISSN - 0091-2131
DOI - 10.1525/eth.1980.8.4.02a00060
Subject(s) - conviction , meaning (existential) , philosophy , epistemology , aesthetics , law , sociology , psychoanalysis , psychology , political science
If there is one belief (however the facts resist it) that units us all, from the evangelists to those who argue away inconvenient partions of their txts, and those who spin large plots to accommodate the discrepancies and dissonances into some larger scheme, it is this conviction that somehow, in some occult fashion, if we could only detect it, everything will be found to hang togethe. [Kermode 1979:72]