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Hans-Georg Gadamer
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Gadamer examines understanding as historically situated and open to revision. A reader’s inherited assumptions encounter resistance from the text rather than supplying its meaning unchecked.
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Guided course · Module 11 · Lesson 67
Understanding is not reading without assumptions
Gadamer’s hermeneutic circle moves between part and whole, and between a text and its reader’s assumptions. A changing interpretation shows how a text can correct what a reader brings to it.