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It was Friedrich Nietzsche who stressed the all-pervading role, constitutive function, and importance of interpretations, though he did not work out a systematic theory of interpretation but contented himself and his readers with rather fragmentary aphorisms like the following ones:
“The interpretative character of all occurrence. There is no event in itself. Whatever would occur, is a set of phenomena selected and collected by an interpreting being”1
“It certainly pervades my works that the value of the world resides in our interpretation.” (W, p. 112)
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Friedrich Nietzsche, Werke Bd. VIII, 1 (Berlin/New York: de Gruyter, 1980), p. 34. Hereafter cited as W. The English translation is my own.
G. Abel, Die Dynamik der Willen zur Macht und die ewige Wiederkehr (Berlin/New York: de Gruyter, 1984), p. 138. English translation is my own.
G. Abel, Worlds of Interpretation (Unpublished manuscript in press).
Hilary Putnam, Truth and History (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1981).
G. Abel, Die Dynamik der Willen zur Macht und die ewige Wiederkehr, p. 155.
Ibid., p. 169.
Ibid., p. 19.
See Hanks Lenk, “Handlung als Interpretationskonstrukt. Entwurf einer konstituenten und beschreibungstheoretischen Handlungsphilosophie,” in H. Lenk, ed., Handlungstheorien interdisziplinär Bd. II, 1 (Munich: Fink, 1978), pp. 279350. Also, by the same author, “Interpretive Action Constructs,” in J. Agassi & R.S. Cohen, eds., Scientific Philosophy Today (Dordrecht: Reidel, 1981), pp. 151–57.
G. Bebauer, “Überlegungen zu einer perspektivischen Handlungstheorie,” in H. Lenk, ed., Handlungstheorie interdisziplinär Bd. II (Munich: Fink, 1978), pp. 251–371.
Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1953), par. 621.
I. Thalberg, Perception, Emotion, and Action (Oxford: B. Blackwell, 1977).
Lenk, “Interpretive Action Constructs,” pp. 154–55.
Hans Lenk, Zwischen Sozialpsychologie und Sozialphilosophie (Frankfurt Suhrkamp, 1987).
Joseph J. Kockelmans, The World in Philosophy and Science (Milwaukee: Bruce, 1969), p. 16 and p. 155.
Ibid.,p. 157ff. Also, see Joseph J. Kockelmans, “On the Problem of Truth in the Sciences,” Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 61, #1 (Supplement), September 1987, pp. 5–26.
Ibid., pp. 158–59.
Ibid., p. 160.
Ibid., p. 168.
Kockelmans, “On the Problem of Truth in the Sciences,” p. 16.
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Lenk, H. (1994). Towards a Systematic Interpretationism. In: Stapleton, T.J. (eds) The Question of Hermeneutics. Contributions to Phenomenology, vol 17. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1160-7_5
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