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hermeneutics

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


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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

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

Mystical hermeneutics may be put to good use by out-of-the-way people.

From A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II by David Eugene Smith


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