Abstract

When we interpret the text, we come to the text not with a "tabula rasa" awaiting the already determined meaning of a text or allowing the unconstrained free play of plural meanings of a text, but with our aims which themselves occur against the background of interpretive tradition. Interpretation is to apply such aims to the text. And within the tradition we can reach a consensus on the valid interpretation. Consensus within the tradition allows plural valid interpretations but does not fall into arbitrariness