hermeneuticize

her·me·neu·ti·cize
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US/ˌhɜɹ.məˈn(j)uː.təˌsaɪz/

verb

To analyze, consider, or regard hermeneutically; to apply hermeneutics to.

Scrabble 30

Meanings

verbhermeneuticize (third-person singular simple present hermeneuticizes, present participle hermeneuticizing, simple past and past participle hermeneuticized)

present singular third person hermeneuticizes · participle present hermeneuticizing · participle past hermeneuticized · past hermeneuticized · alternative Commonwealth hermeneuticise

  1. transitivehuman sciencesTo analyze, consider, or regard hermeneutically; to apply hermeneutics to.
    1 more example

    That, by the way, is all I want to exegesize and defend in Tom Nagel's viewpoint. The rest of the hermeneutics of 'viewpoints' is not (in my view) all that relevant, insofar as the explanatory gap (on which Nagel is unaccountably an optimist!) is concerned. Viewpoint is just one of the many manifestations of consciousness and its countless synonyms and paranyms that one can single out and hermeneuticize without making any real inroads on the explanatory gap itself.

    2009 May 15, Stevan Harnad, “Knowing Something When You Feel It”, in PhilPapers, Western University (Canada) Department of Philosophy

Origin

Translations

French herméneuticiser
  • herméneuticiserto analyze or regard hermeneutically
Polish hermeneutyzować, zhermeneutyzować
  • hermeneutyzowaćto analyze or regard hermeneutically
  • zhermeneutyzowaćto analyze or regard hermeneutically
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