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... interpretation should pursue . My remarks are , however , to be read as a counsel of perfection . Yet , though I cannot claim to follow them throughout in practice , this preliminary discussion , in showing what I have been at pains to ...
... interpretation should pursue . My remarks are , however , to be read as a counsel of perfection . Yet , though I cannot claim to follow them throughout in practice , this preliminary discussion , in showing what I have been at pains to ...
Page 612
... interpretations . " 3 By interpretation , I mean here a conscious act of the mind which illustrates a certain code , certain " rules " of interpretation . Directed to art , interpretation means plucking a set of elements ( the X , the Y ...
... interpretations . " 3 By interpretation , I mean here a conscious act of the mind which illustrates a certain code , certain " rules " of interpretation . Directed to art , interpretation means plucking a set of elements ( the X , the Y ...
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... Interpretation in our own time , however , is even more complex . For the contemporary zeal for the project of interpretation is often prompted not by piety toward the troublesome text ( which may conceal an aggression ) , but by an ...
... Interpretation in our own time , however , is even more complex . For the contemporary zeal for the project of interpretation is often prompted not by piety toward the troublesome text ( which may conceal an aggression ) , but by an ...
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