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hermeneutics

[hur-muh-noo-tiks, -nyoo-] / ˌhɜr məˈnu tɪks, -ˈnyu- /


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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

Joyce’s mythic scaffolding and verbal play identified him to academia as being essential both to modernism and to the project of hermeneutics.

From The Guardian • Mar. 18, 2017

As Mr. Tylor observes, no household legend or nursery rhyme is safe from his hermeneutics.

From Myths and myth-makers: Old Tales and Superstitions Interpreted by Comparative Mythology by Fiske, John



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