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While endorsing pluralism with regard to the number of correct interpretations a text may yield indeed considering it often a positive feature of the artistic use of language Goodman insists that the work, in literary art, is the text.
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In scriptural interpretation, for example, it is imperative to distinguish true interpretations of a text from false ones; this in turn requires thinking about the stability of linguistic meaning and about the use of analogy, metaphor, and allegory in textual analysis.
But even the most elaborate interpretations of a text or tradition require more rigor and must begin with the literal.
And the two translations together are a helpful reminder that having multiple interpretations of a text serves readers better than one definitive — or "perfect" — translation ever could.
Note any inconsistencies between your interpretation of a text and the author's interpretation of a text.
Because any text can be interpreted in an indefinite number of ways, the search for the "correct" interpretation of a text is always hopeless.
The interpretation of a text is the minimal explanation of why the text would be true.
General rules for a proper interpretation of a text (i.e. integrating it in a hierarchical complex of multiple texts) may serve as a moderating element here, which is supposed to prevent extreme and potentially dangerous misinterpretations of a single text.
Data were analysed using manifest qualitative content analysis, a method that describes visible, obvious content, but also allows interpretation of a text [ 22, 23].
Ricoeur [ 20, 21] describes interpretation of a text as a dialectic process from understanding to explanation and then from explanation to critical comprehension.
In this study six older adults were interviewed and von Post and Eriksson's [ 37] approach to hermeneutical interpretation of a text was used to gain a deeper understanding, rather than simply a description of the older adult's experience of home.
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