(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.
Semiotics
Definition:
(n.) Semeiology.
(n.) Same as Semeiotics.
Example Sentences:
(1) It examines from a semiotic perspective the double transformations of spirit and host which in the beliefs and practices of the People of the Air constitute "therapy."
(2) Biology thus is, in itself and in all its aspects, natural semiotics with a pronounced proximity to deterministic chaos.
(3) The endoscopic anatomy of the subdural space structure and endoscopic semiotics of intracranial lesions are presented.
(4) I want the whole run as raw material for my up-coming PhD on the semiotics of 20th-century Britishness at the University of Uppsala.
(5) A semiotic conceptualization of pain in the chronic pain syndrome is proposed.
(6) Special attention is paid to psychopathology as well as to psychodynamic and semiotic aspects of the delusional illness.
(7) A phonocardiographic semiotics of the complications is presented.
(8) The present empirical study of the semiotic aspects of suitability for psychotherapy grew out of this early experience.
(9) The results of this and previous studies are interpreted within a semiotic theory of communication.
(10) This paper reports phenomenological and semiotic research on therapeutic rituals in a Muslim shrine, concentrating on three cases studies.
(11) Bodily expressions were analyzed according the semiotic theory of Charles Sanders Peirce.
(12) Normal tomoechoencephalogramme and ultrasonic semiotics of transverse sections of the brain in different pathology is described with reference to its nature and interrelationships with the meninges and brain matter (tumours, abscesses, emningeal and intracerebral haematomas, hydroma, brain confusion, intracranial foreign bodies).
(13) In the neurological examination of the child, there is a growing significance of subclinical semiotics and graphomotor expression.
(14) The goal of the present paper is to give a classification of psychosomatic theories on symbolic body functioning by applying two modern semiotic theories (Peirce, de Saussure).
(15) In the article is presented the echographic semiotics of the forearm interosseous membrane, based on the results of 10 forearm examinations.
(16) Semiotic structures have the form of saying something about something to someone and involve speech act, reference, pragmatics, and interpretation.
(17) The semiotics of curry allows for market segmentation and a premium pricing strategy.
(18) A comparison of image quality assured by electroroentgeno- and roentgenography did not establish any significant difference in soft tissue tumor semiotics.
(19) Echographic semiotics of radiation cystitis was studied in detail versus cystoscopy data.
(20) This article shows that since scientific explanation employs a language of its own, its syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic dimensions must therefore be analysed with the help of semiotics.