(n.) The science of interpretation and explanation; exegesis; esp., that branch of theology which defines the laws whereby the meaning of the Scriptures is to be ascertained.
Example Sentences:
(1) Rather than precipitately mediating between clinical hermeneutics and empirical nomology, a critical differentiation of both methodologies is advocated.
(2) This means that they must first have worked out a unified approach, a hermeneutic structure, with which to understand him.
(3) The problem of a hermeneutic psychiatry would be to steer between the Scylla of naive realism ignoring the major participation of the psychotherapist on the one hand, and the Charybdis of relativism, nihilism, and hopeless skepticism on the other.
(4) I further suggest that certain flaws in modern medicine arise from its refusal of a hermeneutic self-understanding.
(5) For the purposes of psychotherapists, the point of hermeneutics is that, in contrast to the natural sciences, it focusses away from the classical notion of the neutral independent observer (or subject or psychotherapist) as detached from the object of his or her study, the patient.
(6) These results indicate that the phenomenological and hermeneutic approaches should be supplemented with a "third person approach" in nursing science.
(7) An alternative approach is recommended that involves interpreting moral experience by means once associated with the rhetorical arts--practical reasoning, hermeneutics, casuistry, and thick description.
(8) The author opposes the two principal conceptions of interpretation: the deterministic conception predominant in Freud, in which the present is determined by the subject's actual past; and the creative hermeneutic conception, which traces its origins back not only to Heidegger and Ricoeur but also to Jung; in the latter view, interpretation cannot but be retroactive, assigning significance to a meaningless past.
(9) This paper describes a hermeneutical and phenomenological research study of the mid-life spiritual experience of 10 women who are members of the United Church of Canada.
(10) Attempts of mediation, be it from systemic-emergence-theoretical or from hermeneutic perspective of interaction forms and their interaction engrams corresponding to their central nervous substratum, turn out to be mystifications of actual incompatibilities, namely of the inevitably double discourse.
(11) The analysis of madness lays out hermeneutics of multiple levels through which the most profound and conflictive structures of our culture become visible.
(12) Each respondent was evaluated hermeneutically in a pastoral-clinical way, and the whole material was treated statistically.
(13) These models, health as a shared and communicable experience and health as a medical-physiological concept, provided a focus for hermeneutical understanding of the MHF information problem.
(14) The author investigates the significance of E. Bisers linguistic hermeneutics in their relevance for a medical and psychological anthropology.
(15) Data analysis was carried out according to the method of structural hermeneutics (Oevermann et al.
(16) The situation of the therapeut-patient interview is taken as unifying point of reference for a discussion of the relation between psychoanalysis and hermeneutics.
(17) Three trends within philosophy are delineated--positivism, hermeneutics, and a synthetic position.
(18) Hermeneutic methods were applied to the 174 interviews and 13 diaries collected.
(19) Besides, it embodies an unduly passive construal of the hermeneutic stance.
(20) At the conceptual as well as the practical level, modern medicine and its scientific foundations are hermeneutic enterprises.
Philology
Definition:
(n.) Criticism; grammatical learning.
(n.) The study of language, especially in a philosophical manner and as a science; the investigation of the laws of human speech, the relation of different tongues to one another, and historical development of languages; linguistic science.
(n.) A treatise on the science of language.
Example Sentences:
(1) After the war, Auerbach notes mournfully, the standardisation of ideas, and greater and greater specialisation of knowledge gradually narrowed the opportunities for the kind of investigative and everlastingly inquiring kind of philological work that he had represented; and, alas, it's an even more depressing fact that since Auerbach's death in 1957 both the idea and practice of humanistic research have shrunk in scope as well as in centrality.
(2) After a brief philologic introduction on some correlated concepts of pathogenesis we suggest the concept of pathological physiognomy of the organs.
(3) His methods were derived from the tradition of Indo-European philology.
(4) His great book Mimesis, published in Berne in 1946 but written while Auerbach was a wartime exile teaching Romance languages in Istanbul, was meant to be a testament to the diversity and concreteness of the reality represented in western literature from Homer to Virginia Woolf; but reading the 1951 essay one senses that, for Auerbach, the great book he wrote was an elegy for a period when people could interpret texts philologically, concretely, sensitively, and intuitively, using erudition and an excellent command of several languages to support the kind of understanding that Goethe advocated for his understanding of Islamic literature.
(5) 3) the philological-technical approach, which attempts an interpretation using the above philological approach supplemented by a consideration of the present-day function of a particular instrument or procedure.
(6) The various neuropsychological, medical and philological aspects of these terms are discussed.
(7) The analysis agrees with anthropological and philological evidence for population movements from Asia to Europe.
(8) Thirty years ago the term gender was borrowed from philology for use in sexological psychology in a paper on hermaphroditism (Money, 1955).
(9) A graduate in philology, the study of historical texts, she says she is aiming to earn enough to bring her daughter to the UK to attend college, as well as her husband.
(10) Any such modern explanation of the quantitative phenomenon is, however, hypothetical, all the more so as the philological observation of the phenomenon is not unproblematical.
(11) F. Max Müller, Oxford's professor of comparative philology, drew on Kant's work, Romantic Naturphilosophie, and his views on the history of language and the relation of language to thought to maintain that language showed a difference not in degree but in kind between man and the lower primates.
(12) 2) the philological approach, involving a Constitutio textus, the etymological analysis of the instrument's name and an examination of parallel references.
(13) To young people of the current generation the very idea of philology suggests something impossibly antiquarian and musty, but philology in fact is the most basic and creative of the interpretive arts.
(14) The main requirement for the kind of philological understanding Auerbach and his predecessors were talking about and tried to practise was one that sympathetically and subjectively entered into the life of a written text as seen from the perspective of its time and its author.
(15) On the one hand Sudhoff thought the philologic historical method to be the appropriate one for the investigation of the history of ancient medicine, on the other hand he did not think it to be indispensable for the medical historians.
(16) Rather than alienation and hostility to another time and a different culture, philology as applied to Weltliteratur involved a profound humanistic spirit deployed with generosity and, if I may use the word, hospitality.
(17) It was virtually as an afterthought that he added a social evolutionary component to what he conceived of as an exercise in philology.