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Professor Gary B. Madison, an outstanding proponent of hermeneutics, finds this sort of philosophy beset by unfair criticism.1 Hermeneutics, which seeks dialogue based on “common understandings,”2 has been rudely rebuffed by critics guilty of “egregious misunderstandings.”3 Some of these errors are “so to speak, honest ones. ... Others are, quite frankly, dishonest ones, obstacles deliberately thrown in the path of the uninitiated by opponents of hermeneutics who have every interest in slowing its progress.”4 Some of the “more vituperative critics of hermeneutics, in rejecting it wholesale, discard in the process all claims to intellectual integrity.”5
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Gary B. Madison, “Hermeneutical Integrity: A Guide for the Perplexed,” Market Process 6, no. 1 (Spriner 1988): 2–8.
Gary B. Madison, Understanding: A Phenomenological-Pragmatic Analysis (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1982).
David Gordon, “Hermeneutics versus Austrian Economies” (Occasional Paper; Auburn, Ala.: The Ludwig von Mises Institute, 1986).
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Gordon, D. (1990). Understanding: A Phenomenological-Pragmatic Analysis. In: Rothbard, M.N., Block, W. (eds) The Review of Austrian Economics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-3454-7_9
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