The Meaning of “Meaning” from a Hermeneutic Point of View
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Petra Hedberg
Abstract
What is the meaning of “meaning”, hermeneutically seen? How does the philosophical hermeneutics of Hans-Georg Gadamer relate to the different types of meaning that are at hand in other branches of philosophy, such as sentence meaning within analytic philosophy, uttered meaning within speech acts theory and the communicative/dialogical meaning of formal/transcendental pragmatics? The comprehensive framework of Gadamer’s hermeneutics forms the horizon of understanding of this paper, and of specific interest is how these different types of meaning relate to the hermeneutic framework. Can a hermeneutical sense of meaning be elaborated in contrast to these different senses of meaning? Or, can these different types of meaning, in a certain sense, also be seen as compatible with the wider hermeneutical framework of meaning?
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- Frontmatter
- Reinstating Reflection: The Dialectic of Conscience within Hegel’s Philosophy of Right
- The Existence and Reality of Negative Facts
- The Subjective Experience of Poverty
- Diagnostic Preliminaries to Applying a Theory of Decision
- On the Possibility of Realist Dialetheism
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Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Reinstating Reflection: The Dialectic of Conscience within Hegel’s Philosophy of Right
- The Existence and Reality of Negative Facts
- The Subjective Experience of Poverty
- Diagnostic Preliminaries to Applying a Theory of Decision
- On the Possibility of Realist Dialetheism
- The Meaning of “Meaning” from a Hermeneutic Point of View
- Ethical Aspects of Self-Forgiveness
