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Hermeneutics concerns interpretation and understanding. Gadamer asks how a situated reader can revise assumptions without pretending to read from nowhere.
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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.