What is "interpretive"

Usage examples of "interpretive".

Habermas to Derrida maintain that transcendental signifieds anchor signification in ways that prevent interpretive reality from being merely constructed, since they are significantly anchored in extralinguistic factors.

The Great Chain tottered off into empirical observables, degrees of depth collapsed into degrees of span, interpretive dimensions disappeared into empirical action terms, and qualitative distinctions melted down into functional interrelations of span: the great interlocking order of empirical surfaces.

Interpretive inquiry aims at the understanding of meanings, whether subjective or intersubjective.

We don't want false memory syndromics, we don't want anecdotal reportage, we don't want post hoc invention or narration, and we sure as hell don't want people like you coming in and trying to put an interpretive spin on the events.

Then she said that, in honor of Amber, both the varsity and junior varsity cheerleading squads had put together an interpretive dance.

He practiced an almost magical martial art that resembled interpretive dancing and produced truly horrifying results.

The technological revolution in which our tools became so fast and so interpretive that the average man or woman could hold the indexed library of ancient Alexandria on their desks and call it up with a few keyed commands.

The further interpretive steps taken by the Left-Hand path, and the actual theorizing of the Right-Hand path, also follow these three strands, but as an additional application, as it were (see Wilber, Eye to eye, for a fuller discussion of this notion).

Complicated counterpoint and devilishly tricky cross-rhythms, that would swamp the brain of a normal pianist with the mere task of playing notes, were handled readily by Kent Lindstrom on a division-of-labor basis, leaving both his minds with attention to spare for interpretive niceties.