hermeneutics
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In fact, hermeneutics challenges the basic idea of things having one absolute meaning.
From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022
I found that when I looked in bibliographies, I was running across words like "phenomenology" and "hermeneutics" and things I didn't quite understand why they were there.
From Salon • Dec. 13, 2021
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
The hermeneutics of gems are uncertain, and founded on mere fanciful resemblances, on the harmonies of ideas hard to assimilate.
From The Cathedral by Huysmans, J.-K. (Joris-Karl)
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