EN220 Lecture 1: en 220 lecture notes
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There are many different instances of culture that exist at the same time. Furthermore, there are many different definitions of culture or different sense of culture that exist. Individual enrichment bettering one"s self betters one"s culture. There isn"t a culture with a capital c, there are many cultures, with an s. j. Description of hermeneutics a reality that can be known through the sense and a single appropriate set of scientific methods for investigating that reality. Hermes was interpreting the message of zeus for them so there would be no misunderstanding because hermes would decide on the correct words to use. Representation is constitutive it does not occur after the event but is part of the event. This is the alternative meaning of the representation that hall is proposing. It is grounded in the fundamental relation between meaning, language and culture. Do events in the world have one true meaning against which we can measure the degree of distortion.
