Arie Kruglanski, a psychology professor at the University of Maryland, studied the final words of suicide bombers and discovered a pattern: their motivation is personal significance and a search for a meaning that they are brainwashed into believing can only come with death.
The Roman Catholic archbishop of Milan, Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini, is known as an innovator, the creator of a series of public events at his city's cathedral, in which two participants -- one a religious believer, the other a nonbeliever -- discuss the search for meaning and significance in a given subject area.
"Relationships are forged, sometimes unlikely ones, which cross cultural barriers and recognise our common search for significance and meaning in a hurting world".
Now that it is gone from so many lives, in place of salvation we have the search for significance, a much trickier business.
In poems such as "Pleurs dans la nuit" and "La Bouche d'ombre," he reveals a tormented mind that struggles between doubt and faith in its lonely search for meaning and significance.
The most common understanding of spirituality was "belief and relationship with God/religiosity" (38.8%), followed by "search for meaning and significance for human life" (38.0%), and by "belief in the existence of the soul and life after death" (20.5%) (Table 2).
The proposed search strategy performs an exhaustive search for interaction significance across all SNP pairs against a quantitative phenotype.
In the end, moreover, Schlick turned away from his colleagues' search for a criterion of empirical significance.
We are now in a position to return to a final criticism of the search for a criterion of empiricist significance.
On the one hand, it remains an open option to pursue the search for a criterion of empirical significance in terms of constructed, formal languages further along the lines opened by Carnap with his theory-relative proposal of 1956 (and its later defense against critics).
