hermeneutics
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To be fair to the practice of hermeneutics, there is also a more charitable way to look at Pence's remarks.
From Salon • Aug. 27, 2023
One of the key ideas of hermeneutics is the suggestion that truth is relative to perspective and is not fixed.
From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022
Sharpton was at the lectern letting his words roar and flow, telling stories that circled back on each other in the familiar hermeneutics of black preachers.
From Washington Post • Jun. 4, 2020
Interpreting Jacqueline’s messages often required a sophisticated hermeneutics: “You are not too cold or buggy at nights? I have screams. Also, I did not mention before I am a poet.”
From The New Yorker • Apr. 22, 2019
At the same time he seems unconscious of any inconsistency between the doctrine of the inspiration of the Bible as usually received and his principles of hermeneutics.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" by Various