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  1. Reading medieval romances with philosophical theory from Leibniz to Kant, Gadamer, Latour & others, James & Peggy Knapp present a study on 6 core works of #MedievalLiterature and the relation between #aesthetics & reality within them

    #MiddleAges #LiteraryStudies #Hermeneutics

  2. Reading medieval romances with philosophical theory from Leibniz to Kant, Gadamer, Latour & others, James & Peggy Knapp present a study on 6 core works of #MedievalLiterature and the relation between #aesthetics & reality within them

    #MiddleAges #LiteraryStudies #Hermeneutics

  3. The Creepy Weirdos have practiced wicked #hermeneutics and #transmogrification of Proverbs 29:18 to be interpreted as: “the vision is for people to perish”.
    beige.party/@theynege/11401465

  4. Interpreter and Interpretant • Selection 7
    inquiryintoinquiry.com/2025/01

    Learning —

    Rules in a knowledge base, as far as their effective content goes, can be obtained by any mode of inference. For example, consider a proposition of the following form.

    • B ⇒ A, Just Before it rains, the Air is cool.

    Such a proposition is usually induced from a consideration of many past events. The inductive inference may be observed to fit the following pattern.

    • Case : C ⇒ B, In Certain events, it is just Before it rains.
    • Fact : C ⇒ A, In Certain events, the Air is cool.
    ────────────────────────────────────
    • Rule : B ⇒ A, Just Before it rains, the Air is cool.

    However, the same proposition could also be abduced as an explanation of a singular occurrence or deduced as a conclusion of a prior theory.

    References —

    Awbrey, J.L., and Awbrey, S.M. (1995), “Interpretation as Action : The Risk of Inquiry”, Inquiry : Critical Thinking Across the Disciplines 15(1), 40–52.
    pdcnet.org/inquiryct/content/i
    academia.edu/57812482/Interpre

    Dewey, J. (1910), How We Think, D.C. Heath, Boston, MA. Reprinted (1991), Prometheus Books, Buffalo, NY.
    gutenberg.org/files/37423/3742

    Resources —

    Survey of Abduction, Deduction, Induction, Analogy, Inquiry
    inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/02

    Survey of Semiotics, Semiosis, Sign Relations
    inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/01

    #Peirce #Logic #Semiotics #SignRelations #TriadicRelations
    #Interpretation #Interpreter #Interpretant #Hermeneutics
    #JohnDewey #Inquiry #Abduction #Deduction #Induction
    #Abstraction #HypostaticAbstraction #Reflection

  5. Interpreter and Interpretant • Selection 6
    inquiryintoinquiry.com/2025/01

    Inquiry and Induction —

    To understand the bearing of inductive reasoning on the closing phases of inquiry there are a couple of observations we should make.

    • Smaller inquiries are typically woven into larger inquiries, whether the whole pattern of inquiry is carried on by a single agent or by a complex community.

    • There are several ways particular instances of inquiry are related to ongoing inquiries at larger scales. Three modes of interaction between component inquiries and compound inquiries may be described under the headings of Learning, Transfer, and Testing of Rules.

    #Peirce #Logic #Semiotics #SignRelations #TriadicRelations
    #Interpretation #Interpreter #Interpretant #Hermeneutics
    #JohnDewey #Inquiry #Abduction #Deduction #Induction
    #Abstraction #HypostaticAbstraction #Reflection

  6. 📣Vortrag im Forschungskolloquium am Dienstag, 14. Januar, 17.30-19.00 Uhr, Raum 012 in Gebäude 30.91:

    Falko Schmieder (Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung Berlin) stellt das interdisziplinäre 📚Lexikon-Projekt "Das 20. Jahrhundert in Grundbegriffen" vor, das sich unter anderem in der Nachfolge der „Geschichtlichen Grundbegriffe“ sieht. Das Lexikon ist online bereits mit der Veröffentlichung einer ersten Charge von Artikeln gestartet.

    zfl-berlin.org/projekt/das-20-

    #ideengeschichte #Lexikon #Semantik #Grundlagenforschung #geisteswissenschaften #kulturwissenschaften #sozialwissenschaften #geschichtswissenschaft #deutschesprache #Begriffe #hermeneutics #begriffsgeschichte

    👉Die Artikel erscheinen sukzessive open access in der e-library des @schwabe_verlag und zum Abschluss des Projektes in fünf gedruckten Bänden.

  7. 📣Vortrag im Forschungskolloquium am Dienstag, 14. Januar, 17.30-19.00 Uhr, Raum 012 in Gebäude 30.91:

    Falko Schmieder (Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung Berlin) stellt das interdisziplinäre 📚Lexikon-Projekt "Das 20. Jahrhundert in Grundbegriffen" vor, das sich unter anderem in der Nachfolge der „Geschichtlichen Grundbegriffe“ sieht. Das Lexikon ist online bereits mit der Veröffentlichung einer ersten Charge von Artikeln gestartet.

    zfl-berlin.org/projekt/das-20-

    #ideengeschichte #Lexikon #Semantik #Grundlagenforschung #geisteswissenschaften #kulturwissenschaften #sozialwissenschaften #geschichtswissenschaft #deutschesprache #Begriffe #hermeneutics #begriffsgeschichte

    👉Die Artikel erscheinen sukzessive open access in der e-library des @schwabe_verlag und zum Abschluss des Projektes in fünf gedruckten Bänden.

  8. 📣Vortrag im Forschungskolloquium am Dienstag, 14. Januar, 17.30-19.00 Uhr, Raum 012 in Gebäude 30.91:

    Falko Schmieder (Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung Berlin) stellt das interdisziplinäre 📚Lexikon-Projekt "Das 20. Jahrhundert in Grundbegriffen" vor, das sich unter anderem in der Nachfolge der „Geschichtlichen Grundbegriffe“ sieht. Das Lexikon ist online bereits mit der Veröffentlichung einer ersten Charge von Artikeln gestartet.

    zfl-berlin.org/projekt/das-20-

    #ideengeschichte #Lexikon #Semantik #Grundlagenforschung #geisteswissenschaften #kulturwissenschaften #sozialwissenschaften #geschichtswissenschaft #deutschesprache #Begriffe #hermeneutics #begriffsgeschichte

    👉Die Artikel erscheinen sukzessive open access in der e-library des @schwabe_verlag und zum Abschluss des Projektes in fünf gedruckten Bänden.

  9. 📣Vortrag im Forschungskolloquium am Dienstag, 14. Januar, 17.30-19.00 Uhr, Raum 012 in Gebäude 30.91:

    Falko Schmieder (Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung Berlin) stellt das interdisziplinäre 📚Lexikon-Projekt "Das 20. Jahrhundert in Grundbegriffen" vor, das sich unter anderem in der Nachfolge der „Geschichtlichen Grundbegriffe“ sieht. Das Lexikon ist online bereits mit der Veröffentlichung einer ersten Charge von Artikeln gestartet.

    zfl-berlin.org/projekt/das-20-

    #ideengeschichte #Lexikon #Semantik #Grundlagenforschung #geisteswissenschaften #kulturwissenschaften #sozialwissenschaften #geschichtswissenschaft #deutschesprache #Begriffe #hermeneutics #begriffsgeschichte

    👉Die Artikel erscheinen sukzessive open access in der e-library des @schwabe_verlag und zum Abschluss des Projektes in fünf gedruckten Bänden.

  10. Interpreter and Interpretant • Selection 5
    inquiryintoinquiry.com/2025/01

    Inquiry and Inference —

    If we follow Dewey's “Sign of Rain” story far enough to consider the import of thought for action, we realize the subsequent conduct of the interpreter, progressing up through the natural conclusion of the episode — the quickening steps, the seeking of shelter in time to escape the rain — all those acts amount to a series of further interpretants for the initially recognized signs of rain and the first impressions of the actual case. Just as critical reflection develops the positive and negative signs which gather about an idea, pragmatic interpretation explores the consequential and contrasting actions which give effective and testable meaning to a person's belief in it.

    #Peirce #Logic #Semiotics #SignRelations #TriadicRelations
    #Interpretation #Interpreter #Interpretant #Hermeneutics
    #JohnDewey #Inquiry #Abduction #Deduction #Induction
    #Abstraction #HypostaticAbstraction #Reflection

  11. Interpreter and Interpretant • Selection 4
    inquiryintoinquiry.com/2025/01

    Interpretation and Inquiry —

    To illustrate the role of sign relations in inquiry we begin with Dewey's elegant and simple example of reflective thinking in everyday life.

    ❝A man is walking on a warm day. The sky was clear the last time he observed it; but presently he notes, while occupied primarily with other things, that the air is cooler. It occurs to him that it is probably going to rain; looking up, he sees a dark cloud between him and the sun, and he then quickens his steps. What, if anything, in such a situation can be called thought? Neither the act of walking nor the noting of the cold is a thought. Walking is one direction of activity; looking and noting are other modes of activity. The likelihood that it will rain is, however, something suggested. The pedestrian feels the cold; he thinks of clouds and a coming shower.❞ (John Dewey, How We Think, 6–7).

    #Peirce #Logic #Semiotics #Semiosis #SignRelations #TriadicRelations
    #Cybersemiotics #Interpreter #Interpretant #Hermeneutics #Hermenaut
    #JohnDewey #HowWeThink #Inquiry #Abduction #Deduction #Induction
    #Abstraction #HypostaticAbstraction #Reflection #Interpretation

  12. Reference —

    Peirce, C.S. (1866), “The Logic of Science, or, Induction and Hypothesis”, Lowell Lectures of 1866, pp. 357–504 in Writings of Charles S. Peirce : A Chronological Edition, Volume 1, 1857–1866, Peirce Edition Project, Indiana University Press, Bloomington, IN, 1982.

    Resources —

    Hypostatic Abstraction
    inquiryintoinquiry.com/2008/08

    Survey of Semiotics, Semiosis, Sign Relations
    inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/01

    #Peirce #Logic #Semiotics #Semiosis #SignRelations #TriadicRelations
    #Cybersemiotics #Interpreter #Interpretant #Hermeneutics #Hermenaut
    #Abstraction #HypostaticAbstraction #SopToCerberus #Interpretation

  13. ❝I think we need to reflect upon the circumstance that every word implies some proposition or, what is the same thing, every word, concept, symbol has an equivalent term — or one which has become identified with it, — in short, has an “interpretant”.

    ❝Consider, what a word or symbol is; it is a sort of representation. Now a representation is something which stands for something. I will not undertake to analyze, this evening, this conception of standing for something — but, it is sufficiently plain that it involves the standing to something for something. A thing cannot stand for something without standing to something for that something. Now, what is this that a word stands to? Is it a person?

    ❝We usually say that the word “homme” stands to a Frenchman for “man”. It would be a little more precise to say that it stands to the Frenchman's mind — to his memory. It is still more accurate to say that it addresses a particular remembrance or image in that memory. And what “image”, what remembrance? Plainly, the one which is the mental equivalent of the word “homme” — in short, its interpretant. Whatever a word addresses then or stands to, is its interpretant or identified symbol. […]

    ❝The interpretant of a term, then, and that which it stands to are identical. Hence, since it is of the very essence of a symbol that it should stand to something, every symbol — every word and every “conception” — must have an interpretant — or what is the same thing, must have information or implication.❞ (Peirce 1866, Chronological Edition 1, pp. 466–467).

    #Peirce #Logic #Semiotics #Semiosis #SignRelations #TriadicRelations
    #Cybersemiotics #Interpreter #Interpretant #Hermeneutics #Hermenaut

  14. Interpreter and Interpretant • Selection 3
    inquiryintoinquiry.com/2025/01

    The following selection from Peirce's “Lowell Lectures on the Logic of Science” (1866) lays out in detail his “metaphorical argument” for the relationship between interpreters and interpretant signs.

    #Peirce #Logic #Semiotics #Semiosis #SignRelations #TriadicRelations
    #Cybersemiotics #Interpreter #Interpretant #Hermeneutics #Hermenaut
    #Abstraction #HypostaticAbstraction #SopToCerberus #Interpretation

  15. Interpreter and Interpretant • Selection 2
    inquiryintoinquiry.com/2025/01

    A idea of what Peirce means by an Interpretant and the part it plays in a triadic sign relation is given by the following passage.

    ❝It is clearly indispensable to start with an accurate and broad analysis of the nature of a Sign. I define a Sign as anything which is so determined by something else, called its Object, and so determines an effect upon a person, which effect I call its Interpretant, that the latter is thereby mediately determined by the former. My insertion of “upon a person” is a sop to Cerberus, because I despair of making my own broader conception understood.❞ (Peirce 1908, Selected Writings, p. 404).

    According to his custom of clarifying ideas in terms of their effects, Peirce tells us what a sign is in terms of what it does, the effect it brings to bear on a “person”. That effect he calls the interpretant of the sign. And what of that person? Peirce finesses that question for the moment, resorting to a “Sop to Cerberus”, in other words, a rhetorical gambit used to side‑step a persistent difficulty of exposition. In doing so, Peirce invokes the hypostatic abstraction of a “person” who conducts the movement of signs and embodies the ongoing process of semiosis.

    Reference —

    Peirce, C.S. (1908), “Letters to Lady Welby”, Chapter 24, pp. 380–432 in Charles S. Peirce : Selected Writings (Values in a Universe of Chance), Edited with Introduction and Notes by Philip P. Wiener, Dover Publications, New York, NY, 1966.

    #Peirce #Logic #Semiotics #Semiosis #SignRelations #TriadicRelations
    #Cybersemiotics #Interpreter #Interpretant #Hermeneutics #Hermenaut
    #Abstraction #HypostaticAbstraction #Interpretation

  16. Interpreter and Interpretant • Selection 1
    inquiryintoinquiry.com/2025/01

    Questions about the relationship between “interpreters” and “interpretants” in Peircean semiotics have broken out again. To put the matter as pointedly as possible — because I know someone or other is bound to — “In a theory of three‑place relations among objects, signs, and interpretant signs, where indeed is there any place for the interpretive agent?”

    By way of getting my feet on the ground with the issue I'll do what always helped me before and review a small set of basic texts. Here is the first.

    Figure 1. The Sign Relation in Aristotle
    inquiryintoinquiry.files.wordp

    ❝Words spoken are symbols or signs (symbola) of affections or impressions (pathemata) of the soul (psyche); written words are the signs of words spoken. As writing, so also is speech not the same for all races of men. But the mental affections themselves, of which these words are primarily signs (semeia), are the same for the whole of mankind, as are also the objects (pragmata) of which those affections are representations or likenesses, images, copies (homoiomata).❞ (Aristotle, De Interp. i. 16a4).

    References —

    Aristotle, “On Interpretation” (De Interp.), Harold P. Cooke (trans.), pp. 111–179 in Aristotle, Volume 1, Loeb Classical Library, William Heinemann, London, UK, 1938.

    Awbrey, J.L., and Awbrey, S.M. (1995), “Interpretation as Action : The Risk of Inquiry”, Inquiry : Critical Thinking Across the Disciplines 15(1), 40–52.
    web.archive.org/web/2000121016
    pdcnet.org/inquiryct/content/i
    academia.edu/1266493/Interpret
    academia.edu/57812482/Interpre

    #Peirce #Logic #Semiotics #SignRelations #TriadicRelations
    #Aristotle #Hermeneutics #Interpretation #Interpretant

  17. οὐδὲ ἐροῦσιν Ἰδοὺ ὧδε ἤ Ἐκεῖ· ἰδοὺ γὰρ ἡ βασιλεία τοῦ θεοῦ ἐντὸς ὑμῶν ἐστιν

    “nor will they say, ‘Look, here it is!’ or ‘There it is!’ For behold, the kingdom of God is within you.”

    The Greek word “ἐντὸς” (entos) is typically understood to mean “within” or “inside,” though some translations interpret it as “in the midst of” or “among”.

    The #Ineffable is in the midst of and among us.

    #Neoplatonism #Luke #hermeneutics

  18. Harmen Mesker on #Yijing and #translation, and the ways that interpreting language can twist and turn around on you:

    youtube.com/watch?v=Ddx-XX1iYp

    (This is basically applied #hermeneutics, if you're into the big words. Or a window onto the mystery of words, if you prefer.)

  19. What we really need is for ChatGPT to rewrite the King James Bible in the voice of a TikTok influencer, for a 6th grade reading level, and then for Marvel to make it a graphic novel, which is then adapted into a movie series.

    I’d watch the shit out of that.

    #ChatGPT #ContentCreation #exegesis #hermeneutics #education #religion #edutainment #entertainment

  20. What we really need is for ChatGPT to rewrite the King James Bible in the voice of a TikTok influencer, for a 6th grade reading level, and then for Marvel to make it a graphic novel, which is then adapted into a movie series.

    I’d watch the shit out of that.

    #ChatGPT #ContentCreation #exegesis #hermeneutics #education #religion #edutainment #entertainment

  21. What we really need is for ChatGPT to rewrite the King James Bible in the voice of a TikTok influencer, for a 6th grade reading level, and then for Marvel to make it a graphic novel, which is then adapted into a movie series.

    I’d watch the shit out of that.

    #ChatGPT #ContentCreation #exegesis #hermeneutics #education #religion #edutainment #entertainment

  22. What we really need is for ChatGPT to rewrite the King James Bible in the voice of a TikTok influencer, for a 6th grade reading level, and then for Marvel to make it a graphic novel, which is then adapted into a movie series.

    I’d watch the shit out of that.

    #ChatGPT #ContentCreation #exegesis #hermeneutics #education #religion #edutainment #entertainment

  23. What we really need is for ChatGPT to rewrite the King James Bible in the voice of a TikTok influencer, for a 6th grade reading level, and then for Marvel to make it a graphic novel, which is then adapted into a movie series.

    I’d watch the shit out of that.

    #ChatGPT #ContentCreation #exegesis #hermeneutics #education #religion #edutainment #entertainment

  24. Interpreter and Interpretant • Selection 2
    inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/01

    In the next passage up for review the hypostatic abstraction of a person to conduct the movement of signs is described by Peirce as a Sop to Cerberus, a rhetorical gambit set to side‑step a persistent difficulty of exposition.

    ❝It is clearly indispensable to start with an accurate and broad analysis of the nature of a Sign. I define a Sign as anything which is so determined by something else, called its Object, and so determines an effect upon a person, which effect I call its Interpretant, that the latter is thereby mediately determined by the former. My insertion of “upon a person” is a sop to Cerberus, because I despair of making my own broader conception understood.❞ (Peirce 1908, Selected Writings, p. 404).

    Reference —

    Peirce, C.S. (1908), “Letters to Lady Welby”, Chapter 24, pp. 380–432 in Charles S. Peirce : Selected Writings (Values in a Universe of Chance), Edited with Introduction and Notes by Philip P. Wiener, Dover Publications, New York, NY, 1966.

    Resource —

    Hypostatic Abstraction
    inquiryintoinquiry.com/2008/08

    #Peirce #Logic #Semiotics #SignRelations #TriadicRelations
    #Aristotle #Interpretation #Hermeneutics #InterpretantSign
    #Abstraction #HypostaticAbstraction #SopToCerberus #Pragma

  25. Interpreter and Interpretant • Selection 1
    inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/01

    Questions about the relation between “interpreters” and “interpretants” in Peircean semiotics have broken out again. To put the matter as pointedly as possible, because I know someone or other is bound to — In a theory of three‑place relations among objects, signs, and interpretant signs, where indeed is there any place for the interpretive agent?

    By way of getting my feet on the ground with the issue I'll do what always helped me before and review a small set of basic texts. Here is the first.

    Figure 1. The Sign Relation in Aristotle
    inquiryintoinquiry.files.wordp

    ❝Words spoken are symbols or signs (symbola) of affections or impressions (pathemata) of the soul (psyche); written words are the signs of words spoken. As writing, so also is speech not the same for all races of men. But the mental affections themselves, of which these words are primarily signs (semeia), are the same for the whole of mankind, as are also the objects (pragmata) of which those affections are representations or likenesses, images, copies (homoiomata).❞ (Aristotle, De Interp. i. 16a4).

    References —

    Aristotle, “On Interpretation” (De Interp.), Harold P. Cooke (trans.), pp. 111–179 in Aristotle, Volume 1, Loeb Classical Library, William Heinemann, London, UK, 1938.

    Awbrey, J.L., and Awbrey, S.M. (1995), “Interpretation as Action : The Risk of Inquiry”, Inquiry : Critical Thinking Across the Disciplines 15(1), 40–52.
    web.archive.org/web/2000121016
    pdcnet.org/inquiryct/content/i
    academia.edu/1266493/Interpret
    academia.edu/57812482/Interpre

    #Peirce #Logic #Semiotics #SignRelations #TriadicRelations
    #Aristotle #Interpretation #Hermeneutics #InterpretantSign