Hermeneutical cycle

Japanese: 解釈学的循環 - かいしゃくがくてきじゅんかん
Hermeneutical cycle

…Foreign language sentences are a good example. In order to understand the whole sentence, one must understand the words that make up the sentence, and conversely, in order to determine the meaning of a word, one must understand the whole sentence to some extent. This relationship between the whole and the parts is called the hermeneutical cycle. The technique of understanding based on this cycle is called hermeneutics, and has been elaborately developed in Protestant theology, legal hermeneutics, philology, and so on. …

*Some of the terminology explanations that refer to the "hermeneutical cycle" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…外国語の文章が好例であるが,文全体の理解のためには,部分である単語を理解していなければならないし,逆に単語の意味を確定するためには文の全体をある程度は理解していなければならない。全体と部分のあいだのこの関係は〈解釈学的循環〉と呼ばれる。こうした循環を踏まえた理解の技術は解釈学と称され,プロテスタント神学,法解釈学,文献学などの中で精緻な展開を見ている。…

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