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Gadamer on Appropriating One’s Own Fore-meanings

0 Comments Published by Cynthia R. Nielsen August 11th, 2007 in Hans-Georg Gadamer, Hermeneutics

According to Gadamer, we all have “fore-meanings” that we bring to the text-meanings that we each employ as a kind of standard in our attempts to understand the text.  If this is the case and my fore-meanings do not exactly match your fore-meanings, are we in a hopeless hermeneutical situation?  Gadamer answers with an emphatic [...]

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