The phrase "attempt at an interpretation" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing efforts to understand or explain something, particularly in contexts like literature, art, or complex ideas.
Example: "In her essay, she made an attempt at an interpretation of the poem, exploring its themes and symbolism."
Alternatives: "effort to interpret" or "endeavor at interpretation."
Reichenbach considers, and rejects, the subjective interpretation of probability advocated by the then prominent philosopher and psychologist Carl Stumpf (1892a, b), and, less emphatically, the attempt at an objective interpretation advocated by Johannes von Kries (1886), a physiologist who had studied with Hermann von Helmholtz.
Feyerabend traced the origins of his notion of incommensurability back to his 'thesis I' in "An attempt at a realistic interpretation of experience" (1958a), a condensed version of his 1951 doctoral thesis Zur Theorie der Basissätze (On the Theory of Protocol Sentences).
Much of the material from Feyerabend's thesis was presented at (or gleaned from) meetings of the Kraft Circle, and also appears in his early articles, such as "An Attempt at a Realistic Interpretation of Experience" (1958).
The first attempt at a theoretical interpretation of acid behaviour was made by Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier at the end of the 18th century.
The piece is Corea's first attempt at musical interpretation from one of Hubbard's works.
Unfortunately, Schreiner's lazy approach to the subject matter -- he strings together anecdotes with little attempt at organization or interpretation -- makes one long for a more deft treatment of Beecher egalitarianism.
The first published attempt at interpretation belongs to Cyriac of Ancona in the 15th century AD who referred to it as the "victories of Athens in the time of Pericles".
Additionally, the academics, who themselves tend to eschew any attempt at interpretation, complained that the English translations were usually of poor quality, seemed to display little or no knowledge of 16th-century French, were tendentious and, at worst, were sometimes twisted to fit the events to which they were supposed to refer (or vice versa).
