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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. _____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Jürgen Habermas on Interpretation - Dictionary of Arguments
III 150 Interpretation/action/situation/Habermas: None of the participants in an action situation has a monopoly on interpretation. Each communication participant assigns the various elements of the action situation to one of the three worlds (one objective, one social world and one subjective world as the entirety of the speaker's privilegedly accessible experiences). >Objective world, >Subjective world, >Social world. Interpretations do not have to lead to a stable and clearly differentiated classification in every case or even normally. III 154 Standards-regulated action: in its interpretation the actor challenges the interpreter to check not only the actual conformity with a standard or the actual validity of a standard, but also the correctness of that standard itself. >Norms, >Correctness. III 155 The interpreter can reject this challenge as pointless from a sceptical point of view. >Values, >Sense. III 158 Problem: for the understanding of communicative actions we have to distinguish between questions of meaning and validity. The interpretation performance of an observer differs from the coordination efforts of the participants. >Observation, >Exterior/Interior. The observer does not seek an interpretation able to take a consensus. But perhaps only the functions differed here, not the structures of interpretation._____________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. |
Ha I J. Habermas Der philosophische Diskurs der Moderne Frankfurt 1988 Ha III Jürgen Habermas Theorie des kommunikativen Handelns Bd. I Frankfurt/M. 1981 Ha IV Jürgen Habermas Theorie des kommunikativen Handelns Bd. II Frankfurt/M. 1981 |