ABSTRACT
Both meaningful action and a meaningful life may be held to involve the holding of a set of more or less integrated priorities. However, philosophers of meaning of several stripes have claimed that theories of meaning are fundamental because they specify the nature and limits of what can be communicated and of what can be understood. The belief held in some quarters that such theories of meaning are no longer defended turns out to be illusory, since there are many defenders of pragmatism and of anti-realism, while verificationism continues to be held in updated forms. The Principle of Verification now flows readily. The Analogy of Attribution suggests that God is good in the sense of being the ultimate source or cause of goodness, and compares this with the way in which fresh air or seaside resorts can be said to be healthy as being causes of health.
