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"Meaning" I've most commonly used in contexts where I'm talking about authentic self-understanding, on the one hand, and ultimate reality as authorizing such self-understanding, on the other. There are places, to be sure, where I use "meaning" as, in effect, synonymous with "meaningfulness," "significance," "worth," and even "value" – -- as, for instance, in the phrase "being and meaning." But, for the most part, I use it in the sense it has in the phrase, "the meaning of ultimate reality for us," and thus as referring to ultimate reality as authorizing our authentic self-understanding.

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