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Single Idea 23212
[filed under theme 1. Philosophy / H. Continental Philosophy / 3. Hermeneutics
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Full Idea
The same text allows innumerable interpretations: there is no 'correct' interpretation.
Gist of Idea
A text has many interpretations, but no 'correct' one
Source
Friedrich Nietzsche (Unpublished Notebooks 1885-86 [1886], 1[120])
Book Ref
Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'Fragments from 1885-86 (v 16)', ed/tr. Del Caro,Adrian [Stanford 2020], p.287
A Reaction
It is hard to defend a 'correct' interpretation, but I think it is obvious to students of literature that some interpretations are very silly, such as reading things allegorically when there was no such intention.
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An interpreter of a text, because of wider knowledge, can understand it better than its author
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Unity emerges from understanding particulars, so understanding is prior to seeing unity
[Schleiermacher]
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The claim of hermeneutics to give knowledge through understanding is challenged by positivism
[Mautner on Dilthey]
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24147
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Thoughts are uncertain, and are just occasions for interpretation
[Nietzsche]
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A text has many interpretations, but no 'correct' one
[Nietzsche]
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23075
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A text explained ceases to be a text
[Cioran]
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21892
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Interpretations can be interpreted, so there is no original 'meaning' available
[Derrida]
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Hermeneutics of tradition is sympathetic, hermeneutics of suspicion is hostile
[Ricoeur, by Mautner]
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Hermeneutics blunts truth, by conforming it to the interpreter
[Derrida, by Zimmermann,J]
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20934
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Hermeneutics is hostile, trying to overcome the other person's difference
[Derrida, by Zimmermann,J]
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5439
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The 'hermeneutic circle' says parts and wholes are interdependent, and so cannot be interpreted
[Mautner]
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15575
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Knowledge is not a static set of correct propositions, but a continuing search for better interpretations
[Polt]
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23449
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Interpreting a text is representing it as making sense
[Morris,M]
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23408
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The hermeneutic circle is either within the text, or between text and biased reader
[Norden]
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23407
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Heremeneutics is either 'faith' (examining truth) or 'suspicion' (looking for hidden motives)
[Norden]
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