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But isn't "determining the one true actual meaning of a thing" the entire point of hermeneutics? Or rather, hermeneutics is a technique for objectively determin
by tines 6y ago
But isn't "determining the one true actual meaning of a thing" the entire point of hermeneutics? Or rather, hermeneutics is a technique for objectively determining what something does _not_ mean, which is incompatible with the idea that reality doesn't exist outside an interpretation.
- pacbard 6y agoI honestly don't know. I am not well read in hermeneutics to have any sort of opinion on it. It looks like Stanford's encyclopedia of philosophy [^1] might have a good introduction on the intersection of truth and hermeneutics. A quick skim of that section appears to fuse together ideas from aesthetics, ethics, and linguistics to build a conception of truth that is not based in traditional positivist epistemology. Again, I am not a philosopher so I don't really know what I am talking about. [1]: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/hermeneutics/#ContHerm_1 https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/hermeneutics/#ContHerm_1
- tines 6y agoYeah same here, just wondering.
- 1MoreThing 6y agoDetecting wrong answers doesn't tell you anything about how many right answers there might be.
- tines 6y agoThere only has to be one objectively wrong answer to show that it's not all subjective, which is the point under discussion.