The Balance of Meaning

In The Balance of Meaning Thord Svensson investigates how to possibly make sense of a recognition-transcendent meaning of religious and existentially important words. That is, can the semantic meaning of words like ‘life’, ‘God’, ‘knowledge’ or ‘justice’ extend beyond what their competent user recognize it to be? In the course of exploring this matter several important questions are addressed: Is the reason for our failure to present an adequate definition of ‘life’ the fact that it refers to an