Abstract After a brief review of different definitions and types loneliness I offer an analysis the concept existential its philosophical background. In contrast to interpersonal aspects other loneliness, has been characterized as intrapersonal default state incommunicability or profound aloneness, part based on fundamental ontological transcendental structure in human existence. There are both...

The authors analyse the current objectives of modern education, based on recent studies human existence revealing its multidirectional and multifaceted nature determining life position behaviour a person. levels education system often do not focus existential aspect because educational goals objectives, which is to prepare workforce for labour market. transformation negative form student’s into...

OBJECTIVE An increasing number of older people in Western countries are living with incurable cancer, receiving palliative care from specialized healthcare contexts. The aim of our article was to understand how they experience the existential meaning-making function in daily living from a life-span perspective. METHOD Some 21 participants (12 men and 9 women), aged 70-88, were interviewed in ...

mulla sadra has presented four theories on existential propositions which at first glance seem to be completely different from each other. the present article claims that, if we consider these four views from the perspective of the principality of existence and from the perspective of the principality of quiddity we will find that: firstly, these four views are reducible to two, and secondly, t...

This paper reviews notions related to focus and presupposition and addresses the hypothesis that focus triggers an existential presuppostion. Presuppostion projection behavior in certain examples appears to favor a presuppositional analysis of focus. It is argued that these examples are open to a different analysis using givenness theory. Overall, the analysis favors a weak semantics for focus ...

This paper shows undecidability of type-checking and typeinference problems in domain-free typed lambda-calculi with existential types: a negation and conjunction fragment, and an implicational fragment. These are proved by reducing type-checking and type-inference problems of the domain-free polymorphic typed lambda-calculus to those of the lambda-calculi with existential types by continuation...

OBJECTIVE The use of continuous sedation until death for terminally ill cancer patients with unbearable and untreatable psychological and existential suffering remains controversial, and little in-depth insight exists into the circumstances in which physicians resort to it. METHODS Our study was conducted in Belgium, the Netherlands, and the UK in hospitals, PCUs/hospices, and at home. We hel...