211. The Hermeneutic Circle

2021-07-06

In order to understand this text (as you are doing) you must understand the individual words that make it up…but the overall meaning isn’t contained in the words themselves. It’s almost like you have to consider the whole & its parts simultaneously. Curious.

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Truth & Method (Gadamer, 1975) - https://b-ok.org/book/693475/b3b72d

Hermaneutics (SEP, 2020) - https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/hermeneutics/

Hans-Georg Gadamer (SEP, 2018) - https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/gadamer/

PEL Episode 111: Gadamer’s Hermaneutics - https://partiallyexaminedlife.com/2015/03/02/episode-111-gadamer-hermeneutics/

https://partiallyexaminedlife.com/2015/02/16/topic111-gadamer-hermeneutics/

The genetics of monarch butterfly migration and warning coloration (Zuhn et al, 2014) - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4331202/

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