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Interpretation: A) Making statements about other statements, whereby new vocabulary may be introduced. If no new vocabulary is introduced, new information can be obtained by changing the syntactic grouping.
B) In logic, interpretation is the insertion of values (objects) instead of the constants or free variables.

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Quentin Skinner on Interpretation - Dictionary of Arguments

Gaus I 410
Interpretation/Quentin Skinner/Weinstein: By the 1970s, the Cambridge school of political thought, led by Quentin Skinner, J. G. A. Pocock, John Dunn and Richard Tuck, began challenging such interpretive strategies, countering that the meanings of past political philosophical texts could only be recovered with difficulty by historically contextualizing them (...).
>J.G.A. Pocock
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Skinner: According to Skinner, we should first ascertain the range of possible meanings available to an author
Gaus I 411
when writing a piece of text, and next deploy 'this wider linguistic context as a means of decoding the actual intention of the given writer' (1969(1): 49).
>Meaning/Intending, >Intention/Quentin Skinner, >Theory change, >Meaning change.
Pocock: For his part, Pocock (1985)(2) insists that proper interpretation depends more on discovering the discourse paradigms that inform political philosophical texts than on trying to discover their authors' intentions.
>Interpretation/Pocock.

1. Skinner, Quentin (1969) 'Meaning and understanding in the history of ideas'. History and Theory, V Il: 3-53.
2. Pocock, J. G. A. (1985) Virtue, Commerce, and History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Weinstein, David 2004. „English Political Theory in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century“. In: Gaus, Gerald F. & Kukathas, Chandran 2004. Handbook of Political Theory. SAGE Publications

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Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments
The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition.

SkinnerBF I
B. F. Skinner
Science And Human Behavior 1965

SkinnerQ I
Qu. Skinner
The Return of Grand Theory in the Human Sciences Cambridge 2008

Gaus I
Gerald F. Gaus
Chandran Kukathas
Handbook of Political Theory London 2004


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