(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.
Theory
Definition:
(n.) A doctrine, or scheme of things, which terminates in speculation or contemplation, without a view to practice; hypothesis; speculation.
(n.) An exposition of the general or abstract principles of any science; as, the theory of music.
(n.) The science, as distinguished from the art; as, the theory and practice of medicine.
(n.) The philosophical explanation of phenomena, either physical or moral; as, Lavoisier's theory of combustion; Adam Smith's theory of moral sentiments.
Example Sentences:
(1) This theory was confirmed by product analysis and by measuring the affinity of the substrate for the enzyme by its inhibition of p-nitrophenyl glucoside hydrolysis.
(2) The position of the cyst supports the theory that branchial cysts are congenital in origin.
(3) It helped pay the bills and caused me to ponder on the disconnection between theory and reality.
(4) Implications of the theory for hypothesis testing, theory construction, and scales of measurement are considered.
(5) This observation, reinforced by simultaneous determinations of cortisol levels in the internal spermatic and antecubital veins, practically excluded the validity of the theory of adrenal hormonal suppression of testicular tissues.
(6) In 1935, Einstein challenged the prevailing interpretation of quantum theory.
(7) These results are interpreted in terms of the accessory binding site theory of Ariëns, and suggest the existence of different accessory binding sites on the Ascaris GABA receptor.
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(9) This theory is supported by a previous experimental report.
(10) On the assumption of a distribution in properties of the suspension according to the theory of Bruggeman, the capacitance is calculated to have a value of about one half this.5.
(11) These findings do not support the theory that 5-HT1C receptor activation causes migraine.
(12) Only one part of the theory of Alajouanine and colleagues has been confirmed by our experiments for our results have shown that there is a very close correlation between semantic paraphasias and disorders of semantic differentiation whilst no correlation can be found between phonemic paraphasias and disturbances in auditory phonemic discrimination.
(13) A new theory for the peculiar site selection of cholesteatomas of the external auditory canal is postulated.
(14) However, our theory differs in several important respects from the latter efforts.
(15) This paper provides an overview of the theory, indicating its contributions--such as a basis for individual psychotherapy of severe disorders and a more effective understanding of countertransference--and its shortcomings--such as lack of an explanation for the effects of physical and cognitive factors on object relatedness.
(16) The various theories of carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) are reviewed.
(17) Comparison with values predicted from theory shows that the distribution of protein among the various cross-linked species, obtained after different extents of exposure to cross-linker, is consistent with a two-layered arrangement of subunits involving one type of interaction between subunits from different layers and another between subunits within the same layer.
(18) For each theory, a constraint on preformance is proposed based on interference between the "analytic" and "synthetic" pitch perception modes.
(19) Republican presidential hopeful Scott Walker has refused to say whether he believes in the theory of evolution, arguing that it is “a question a politician shouldn’t be involved in one way or the other”.
(20) These findings support the theory that plasma-membrane-cytoskeleton interactions have a role in the expression of specific immunity; the findings also identify new areas that should be considered in trying to understand the primary immunodeficiency diseases.