My vague understanding is hermeneutics is interpretation + context. so, for a programmer 1 + 1 could be 2, or it could be 10, depending on what layer you're wor

My vague understanding is hermeneutics is interpretation + context. so, for a programmer 1 + 1 could be 2, or it could be 10, depending on what layer you're working at, and how you're choosing to represent things. and that's an easy one where you can just ask the computer. a better example might be all the variations of call by value or call by need. or maybe scope of variable binding. it's still interpretation, but it has a context that give weird answers if you're not used to that evaluation order. Something more vague, like law, is interpreted, and it's important to consider all the prior interpretations and try to sort out what makes sense in context, and it's important to get whoever you're arguing with to agree to the relevant context. anyway, that's how i think about it.