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The meaning of meaning is anything but obvious. Human beings live within meaning, and for that very reason are blind to what meaning is.
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Salvatore, S., De Luca Picione, R. (2023). The Analysis of Meaning. In: Salvatore, S., Veltri, G.A., Mannarini, T. (eds) Methods and Instruments in the Study of Meaning-Making. Culture in Policy Making: The Symbolic Universes of Social Action. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-21995-5_1
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