Full Idea
In the hermeneutic ideal of knowledge, not distance but involvement, not impersonal observation but personal interaction, not thinking against prejudice or tradition but accessing knowledge through them, characterizes our perception of the world.
Gist of Idea
Hermeneutic knowledge is not objective, but embraces interpretations
Source
Jens Zimmermann (Hermeneutics: a very short introduction [2015], 3 'Beyond')
Book Reference
Zimmerman,Jens: 'Hermeneutics: very short introduction' [OUP 2015], p.53
A Reaction
To make this stick it will have to challenge scientific knowledge which results from mathematical summaries of measurements done by instruments. Is a stop watch an interpretation?