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The branch of theology that deals with principles of exegesis
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hermeneutics
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The study or theory of the methodical interpretation of text, especially holy texts.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hermeneutics \Her`me*neu"tics\, n. [Gr. ? (sc. ?).] The science of interpretation and explanation; exegesis; esp., that branch of theology which defines the laws whereby the meaning of the Scriptures is to be ascertained. --Schaff-Herzog Encyc.
Wikipedia
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Hermeneutics is a theory of text interpretation. Hermeneutics may also refer to: The hermeneutic circle , the process of understanding a text hermeneutically Biblical hermeneutics , the study of the principles of interpretation of the Bible Environmental ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1737, from hermeneutic ; also see -ics .
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the branch of theology that deals with principles of exegesis
Usage examples of hermeneutics.
However, deep hermeneutics maintains that once the person loosens the repression barrier, exposes this deeper truth, and acknowledges it, then a certain liberation is gained, a liberation from the distortions, lies, and delusions that were constructed to hide the truth.
Surfaces can be seen but depths must be interpreted, and in that interpretation, you and I can be mistaken, and thus some sort of the hermeneutics of suspicion will always accompany us into the depths.
The discovery of the importance of the constructed intersubjective space is the essence of the genuinely post-Cartesian paradigms, from structuralism to hermeneutics to genealogy and archaeology and grammatologya point we will return to below.
Hermeneutics focused on the signifieds (LH), which could only be grasped from within by empathic participation, and structuralism focused on the signifiers (RH), which can best be approached in a distancing stance of exterior study.
Foucault, in his archaeological period, outdid them both, situating the both of them (structuralism and hermeneutics) in an episteme (later, dispositif) that itself was the cause and context of the type of people that would even want to do hermeneutics and structuralism in the first place.
These are questions, not for hermeneutics or semiotics, but rather for population genetics.