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The Twenty-Seven Lenses

9. Hermeneutic

Read how this lens works

Gadamer · Ricoeur · Schleiermacher

The readings follow the same through-line order used throughout the system, making it possible to compare what this lens changes from one idea to the next.

2. Pre-naming to preempt misread

Gadamer’s fore-structures of understanding deliberately constructed in advance.

7. Frame-correction over self-defence

Gadamer’s fore-structure correction at the conversational level.

16. Ambivalence as a stance — both/and rather than either/or

Ongoing-interpretation rather than final-reading.

18. Honouring origin without subscribing to it

Gadamer’s tradition-without-subscription.