In a third step, text units with coherent statements (i.e. sentences, sections of text with coherent content) were coded with a condensed label intended to capture the essence of meaning.
With a phenomenological approach lived experience is explored; how life is lived when it is taken for granted, while it contains essences of meaning.
Essence, or pronounced meaning, is the object of aesthetic intuition.
Some other debates, however, are not so easily settled, as they involve contentious philosophical ideas such as essence, concept, and meaning.
"The circular shape of the Obama logo is a mandala, a word derived from ancient Sanskrit that is composed of two root words meaning essence and container.
But the world's wisdom traditions exist to open our eyes, seeing beyond the obvious to something incredibly important: If you delve into consciousness, you will find the essence of existence, meaning it purpose, direction and goal.
The reason for distinguishing two modes of natural signifying, as they appear in (1) and (2.1), is, on the one hand, an equivocation of the concept of nature, meaning "substance or essence of something" (substantia sive essentia cuiuslibet), as well as "force acting without deliberation" (virtus agens sine deliberatione) (De signis, 1978, 85f).
It has no essence, no meaning, just like life, pure and simple.
I knew instantly that I was seeing the 'thing,' the spirit, essence, shared meaning, about which the fathers had found so absent from the public domain".
These are dizzying questions — questions that compel us to think about the very essence of meaning, of logic, and ultimately, about the nature of truth itself.
