existential
മനോഭാവം
definition
adjective
So I've been going through an existential reckoning lately, in which I'm in the process of critically examining what I'm doing with my life and why I'm doing it.
of or relating to existence.
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Every few months it seems like all bloggers are called upon to answer the big 'existential' question, ‘What's A Weblog?’
Nashe in The Music of Chance has a compulsion to doubt - the ‘ordinary’ characters are only marginal figures - engaged in a cycle of powerful 'existential' anguish.
Peirce aimed to extend Venn's system in expressive power with respect to the first two kinds of propositions, i.e., 'existential' and disjunctive statements.
The 'existential' philosopher Martin Heidegger precedes Foucault in attempting to understand the historical conditionalitics of Being
So philosophers take the risk of nihilism and 'existential' dread because the allure of wonder is too great.
Instead, we are concerned with certain 'existential' realities that confront us, and which will continue to confront us.
Although the figures are unmistakably American in appearance, their titles suggest general 'existential' conditions.
Yet, although their tackling of such 'existential' matters displays a maturity that few of their hard-rocking colleagues ever come near, the means of delivery can at times seem adolescent.
Finally, someone had brought up the 'existential' question: for the brief time between Pac-Man disappearing from one side of the screen and appearing on the other, where does he go?
Rather than decide to actually cover this story of monstrous proportions, they resorted instead to bogus and pathetic bouts of 'existential' soul-searching.
We can of course make an explicit 'existential' judgement which affirms the existence of the world, but in so doing we are merely making explicit what was there all along.
Administrators were censoring 'existential' themes out of student publications, while Francis was discussing Camus, Sartre, and Heidegger.
Consequently, in his exhibition, the art-work is not a scene of intimate significance, but a testimony of engagement with the crucial 'existential' issues of its epoch and locale.
Thus, myth is a kind of language made up of symbols whose referent is the sacred, and whose meanings are concerned with ultimate or 'existential' issues of human life and destiny.
She argues that Mary Daly, like Tillich, correlates 'existential' questions with ontological/theological concerns.
The 'existential' condition of living in a body mediates our perceptual experience of the world.
So I've been going through an 'existential' reckoning lately, in which I'm in the process of critically examining what I'm doing with my life and why I'm doing it.
If Quine is correct, then we have a means of handling 'existential' propositions that treats them neither as tautologies nor as contradictions,
The problems are not only theoretical; they are 'existential' .
I'm not sure if Kelly is correct to call this the Church's ‘greatest 'existential' crisis since the Reformation.’
This statement of 'existential' purpose implies a domestic emphasis - that we must be prepared to fight significantly different kinds of wars from what we think of today.
That manifestation of the changed 'existential' condition took us unawares - as the change itself took us unprepared.
As a statement of 'existential' ontology this says nothing about which affective states are most prevalent.
Life after Rupert - soon to be 72 - may be the most 'existential' proposition in business today.
As well as providing succour for those troubled by the 'existential' dilemma, religion, or at least a primitive spirituality, would have played another important role as human societies developed.
So, singular negative 'existential' propositions are no less paradoxical than are general ones.
According to Berman, brain images and models may skew and privilege model-friendly properties over 'existential' characteristics of life and thought.
The young Scorsese depicts the sights, sounds and 'existential' desperation of Little Italy's underworld, combining hardcore realism with a sense of subtlety bordering on the sublime.
By default, Giacometti's figures are read, even today, as symbols of the 'existential' condition of humanity, a last-ditch stand before the void.
I've lived 'existentially' for 25 years, imagining a moment at a time.
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