Ordinary language carries with it conditions of meaning which it is easy to recognize by classifying the contexts in which the expression is employed in a meaningful manner.

Quote by Paul Ricoeur

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Testimony gives something to be interpreted.

Testimony gives something to be interpreted.

Wisdom finds its literary expression in wisdom literature.

Wisdom finds its literary expression in wisdom literature.

It is always possible to argue against an interpretation, to confront interpretations, to arbitrate between...

It is always possible to argue against an interpretation, to confront interpretations, to arbitrate between...

Man is this plural and collective unity in which the unity of destination and the...

Man is this plural and collective unity in which the unity of destination and the...

So long as the New Testament served to decipher the Old, it was taken as...

So long as the New Testament served to decipher the Old, it was taken as...

If it is true that there is always more than one way of construing a...

If it is true that there is always more than one way of construing a...

Although there has always been a hermeneutic problem in Christianity, the hermeneutic question today seems...

Although there has always been a hermeneutic problem in Christianity, the hermeneutic question today seems...

Narrative identity takes part in the story's movement, in the dialectic between order and disorder.

Narrative identity takes part in the story's movement, in the dialectic between order and disorder.

The moral law commands us to make the highest possible good in a world the...

The moral law commands us to make the highest possible good in a world the...

The narrative constructs the identity of the character, what can be called his or her...

The narrative constructs the identity of the character, what can be called his or her...

Testimony should be a philosophical problem and not limited to legal or historical contexts where...

Testimony should be a philosophical problem and not limited to legal or historical contexts where...

Hope, insofar as it is hope of resurrection, is the living contradiction of what it...

Hope, insofar as it is hope of resurrection, is the living contradiction of what it...

On a cosmic scale, our life is insignificant, yet this brief period when we appear...

On a cosmic scale, our life is insignificant, yet this brief period when we appear...

Myth expresses in terms of the world - that is, of the other world or...

Myth expresses in terms of the world - that is, of the other world or...

For my own part, I abandon the ethics of duty to the Hegelian critique with...

For my own part, I abandon the ethics of duty to the Hegelian critique with...

This is perhaps the most profound meaning of the book of Job, the best example...

This is perhaps the most profound meaning of the book of Job, the best example...

There is no shorter path for joining a neutral existential anthropology, according to philosophy, with...

There is no shorter path for joining a neutral existential anthropology, according to philosophy, with...

The logic of validation allows us to move between the two limits of dogmatism and...

The logic of validation allows us to move between the two limits of dogmatism and...

There has always been a hermeneutic problem in Christianity because Christianity proceeds from a proclamation.

There has always been a hermeneutic problem in Christianity because Christianity proceeds from a proclamation.

The text is a limited field of possible constructions.

The text is a limited field of possible constructions.