But if the judges are the exegetical libertines conservatives say they are, why not predict that they'll simply make of their latest decision what they choose to make of it?
Hundreds of exegetical and homiletical tracts are published each year and sell for a song, generously subsidised by the state.
Oddly enough, although Mr Self and the Christian bookseller would presumably place themselves at opposite ends of the exegetical spectrum, their responses share an ancestral root.
One of the exegetical issues with which earlier Greek commentaries struggled was how to understand the enigmatic term entelekheia in Aristotle's definition, a term it would seem that Aristotle himself coined.
Thus truth conditions à la Davidson should not be of direct concern in these contexts but will be in the consideration of how to deal with incommensurability with respect to exegetical methodologies, to which we will turn in §4.1.
Although this is controversial exegetical territory, it appears that Locke is aware of this 'real essence' version of natural kinds, but it further appears that he is unwilling to discuss it; his response was to steer clear of the metaphysical claim and return to the semantic issue of nominal essences.
Another important exegetical issue that arises in the Essay is whether Locke thought that there are natural kinds based on real essences.
Those associated with the Kokugaku movement criticized the study of the Confucian classics, the primary object of intellectual endeavor in early modern Japan, and made the earliest Japanese works, which they asserted had escaped Chinese influence, the object of philological and exegetical examination.
And in all these ways, they have raised exegetical issues about how Kant's place in the canon discussed above might be understood differently, concerning his attitude to skepticism and whether in the end his intentions are best interpreted in 'modest' or more ambitious terms (cf. Callanan 2006; Bardon 2006; Stapelford 2008).
We will begin with some brief stage-setting: some historical background, some of the basics of decision theory, and some of the exegetical problems that the Pensées pose.
Like the Greek tradition, the Latin tradition employed a great variety of exegetical tools in the teaching of Aristotle: paraphrases, elementary as well as more advanced commentaries.
