Coms 404 Midterm

The inner word; what someone is trying to say

Expression, translation, explication What we say can never exhaust what we want to say

There is always more to be said. What we say can never exhaust what we are trying to say.

We can only derive access to inner word though language it is a struggle

Are hermeneutics that are methodological reviewing only the text. Understanding of text.

It is interested in how understanding occurs as such-understanding of understanding

Study of end, headed for an endPhilosophical hermeneutics is about what happens when people understand things

Applies everywhere

It is applied to specific communities, it is brought about through ruptures. Something becomes hard to interpret, disagreement.We become hermeneutical by encountering ruptures

We seek to ascribe universality to hermeneutics to discover truth Hermeneutic project is to make the alien familiar, the interpretive phenomena is everywhere.

It seeks to explicate the hidden meaning of text and scriptures

Typological specifically referred to relation between Jesus Used to uncover and prefiguring of Christ within the old testament

The soul is what animates the body it is the deeper meaning that makes it worth telling

It is a passage that is obscure and unclear; vague

Spiritual disposition of interpreter

Compare dark passages w/clear ones

Interpreter must be familiar w/rhetorical tropes Read texts/books about people who have written other works

we encounter language in dialogue

Luther’s Doctrine In faith scripture interprets itself (a misnomer)

Sensus literalis: Milk, the literal meaning, usually for children (metaphor)

Sensus spiritualis: Meat, for adults

On behalf of a science of interpretation:“Everything knowable has a corresponding science; interpretive procedure is knowable; there must therefore be a science corresponding to it”

The kind produced by scholars in which they put forth their own insightful discoveries.

One that is done by research or readings of previous authors, where we are guarded by their skill of interpretation of works from the past

Knowing necessary background information to understand what we are reading

Interpreting is nothing but the adducing of background knowledge necessary to understanding a passage

The circumstance the body of our mind, body, a whole person that makes or causes us to imagine something in this way or rather than that

Perspective of author

A set of all sign relationship; the word is sign relationship (the whole)

Beyond sacred & literature

Signs related to one another in the best possible way

A general coherent horizon of signs, a clear relationship between the particulars signs & the whole world of signs

The author's mind The authoritative mind

It is a fair & charitable reading Reading a text w/the presumption that the text is true

Franckes Conception

How the soul of the word has an affect on the soul of the person

Words impress on the soul

Tracing speech back to the inner word The thought of understanding the speech Speech info ----> behavior Interpretation is the inverse of this understanding seeks to undo speech

Language is grammatical because it follows structure/syntax (milk)

Refers to the specific type of person and what they are trying to say the end purpose is to understand a mind that discloses itself, a soul that manifests itself through the language it brings forth from attaining it. (individual)

It is ideal b/c there always more to be said

It means conversational it is the art of mutual understanding

It is characterized within a yearning revitalization of the greek spirit There is always more to be said it can never be reached