Natural sciences as textual interpretation: The hermeneutics of the natural sign

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 44 (4):509-520 (1984)
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There are close parallels between perception (the interpretation of sensory experience as representing physical objects) and hermeneutics (the interpretation of signs as having meaning). Perceptual illusions corresponds to ambiguities in texts; naive realism corresponds to fundamentalism; the scientist's reinterpretation of the "manifest image" to the global/local interplay of the "hermeneutic circle" in the interpretation of large texts.

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