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Table of contents :
Contents
Preface
INTRODUCTION
1. TWO PRINCIPLES
2. TWO KINDS OF BELIEFS
3. KINDS OF INTERPRETATIONS
4. THE PRINCIPLES
5. CONTESTABLE INTERPRETATIONS
6. ESSENTIALLY CONTESTABLE INTERPRETATIONS
7. GRASPING, UNDERSTANDING, AND INTERPRETING
8. UNIVERSALIZABILITY AND SELF-DECEPTION
9. BEYOND THE PALE
10. CRITIQUE OF INTERPRETIVE REASONING
Index

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INTERPRETIVE REASONING

LAURENT STERN

Cornell University Press ITHACA AND LONDON

Copyright © 2005 by Cornell University All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in a review, this book, or parts thereof, must not be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the publisher. For information, address Cornell University Press, Sage House, 512 East State Street, Ithaca, New York 14850. First published 2005 by Cornell University Press Printed in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Stern, Laurent. Interpretive reasoning / Laurent Stern, p. cm. Includes bibliographical refernces and index. ISBN 0-8014-4330-X (cloth : alk. paper) 1. Hermeneutics. I. -Title. BD241.S825 2005 121'.68-