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- Oct 2021
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www.digitalhermeneutics.com www.digitalhermeneutics.com
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The hermeneutic claim that ourknowledge is always relative to a certain context and personal viewpointwould only be relativism if we actually were isolated selves, unformed byhistory or language.
Does the author mean that the major difference btw hermeneutics and relativism lies in whether or not humans are believed to engaged and influenced by history or language?
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our perception of the world and our thought depends onan intricate linguistic web of words and concepts that develop historicallyover time.
This statement supports the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis (the linguistic relativity hypothesis), which refers to the proposal that the particular language one speaks influences the way one thinks about reality. For more info, refer to: https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/psychology/sapir-whorf-hypothesis
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