It is always the individual person herself, endowed with all her experience and professional knowledge, who interprets the text or at least who decides which interpretation offered by others she wants to follow.
Hybrid interpretivism gives us no reason to abandon a sharp distinction between the pre-interpretively given corpus of institutionally valid norms constituted by communication alone, on which interpretation operates, and the final set of norms that interpretation yields.
It is too early to say which interpretation is correct.
In a way, it doesn't matter which interpretation is correct.
Guess which interpretation the Republicans, and the Democrats, will choose.
But this time we can look at the data to see which interpretation fits the facts.
For the moment, judging which interpretation of Beijing's move is correct is a guessing game.
China is sufficiently opaque that it is hard to know from the outside which interpretation is correct.
But if there are no "independent standards" for judging which interpretation of an event is true, as Mr. Fish says, then why is Ms. Sontag's interpretation "accurate"?
In fact, the geography of judicial districts is itself a potential cause of further confusion about which interpretation of the law applies in a given area.
Sabrina Jamil (83) has me saying that because there is no universal agreement on moral absolutes, we should "just drop it because it makes no difference … which interpretation one holds anyway".
