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Something wrong?A German philosopher who spent decades arguing that understanding itself is less about method than about conversation - that to interpret a text or a person is to let your assumptions collide with theirs until something new emerges.
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, People cannot live without hope; this is one of the statements I can defend without any reservations.
The more language is a living operation, the less we are aware of it. Thus it follows that from the forgetfulness of language that its real being consists in what is said in it.
Aristotle established the classical definition of man, according to which man is the living being who has logos.
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Hans-Georg Gadamer was born in Germany on 11 February 1900 and worked within the continental philosophical tradition for most of the twentieth century. In 1960 he published Truth and Method, a dense treatise on hermeneutics that became his defining work and reset how scholars thought about interpretation. The book proposed that meaning arises not from detached analysis but from a kind of dialogue between interpreter and object, a fusion of horizons across time. He continued teaching and writing for decades after. Gadamer died on 13 March 2002, a month past his 102nd birthday.
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