hermeneutics
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In the study of hermeneutics, this is a technique known as proof texting: starting with a particular belief and working backward to find a biblical passage that seems to support this idea.
From Salon • Aug. 27, 2023
In fact, hermeneutics challenges the basic idea of things having one absolute meaning.
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
At the very end of her essay, she briefly, tantalisingly floats another possible approach, which is more concerned with creativity and repair than the so-called hermeneutics of suspicion.
From The Guardian • Mar. 21, 2020
His statistics is a science auxiliary to all the experimental sciences of man, just as criticism and hermeneutics are a methodological science auxiliary to many sciences, otherwise different.
From Principles Of Political Economy by Lalor, John J. (John Joseph)
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