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#Interpretation

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nemo™ 🇺🇦

Basically hat er schon mehrmals gesagt, wie er auf die Idee mit dem Känguru gekommen ist. Man muss halt verstehen, was er sagt. Auch in den Känguru-Apokryphen hat er indirekt eine Äußerung dazu getätigt. Bei der Story, wo das Känguru & Er auf die Nazis trafen. 💡 #meinung #interpretation

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Ben Fulton

Someone annotated these lines in Dion's "Wanderer"

And when she asks me which one I love the best
I tear open my shirt and I show her "Rosie" on my chest

"‘Rosie’ is most probably referencing a tattoo of a compass rose on his chest, a symbol of his nomadic tendency."

Can't say that interpretation ever occurred to me 🤨

#Lyrics#Interpretation
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WIST Quotations

A quotation from Nassim Nicholas Taleb

History is opaque. You see what comes out, not the script that produces events, the generator of history. There is a fundamental incompleteness in your grasp of such events, since you do not see what’s inside the box, how the mechanisms work. What I call the generator of historical events is different from the events themselves, much as the minds of the gods cannot be read just by witnessing their deeds. You are very likely to be fooled about their intentions.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb (b. 1960) Lebanese-American essayist, statistician, risk analyst, aphorist
The Black Swan, Part 1, ch. 1 “The Apprenticeship of an Empirical Skeptic” (2007)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/taleb-nassim-nichola…

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WIST Quotations

A quotation from Robert Bolt

CROMWELL: Yet is there a man in this court, is there a man in this country, who does not know Sir Thomas More’s opinion of this title? Of course not! But how can that be? Because this silence betokened — nay, this silence was — not silence at all, but most eloquent denial!
 
MORE: (with some of the academic’s impatience for a shoddy line of reasoning) Not so, Mr. Secretary, the maxim is “qui tacet consentire”: The maxim of the law is: (very carefully) “Silence Gives Consent .” If therefore you wish to construe what my silence “betokened,” you must construe that I consented, not that I denied.
 
CROMWELL: Is that in fact what the world construes from it? Do you pretend that is what you wish the world to construe from it?
 
MORE: The world must construe according to its wits. This court must construe according to the law.

Robert Bolt (1924-1995) English dramatist
A Man for All Seasons, play, Act 2 (1960)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/bolt-robert/76003/

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ReallyCanadianFly

Love it, like it, or loathe it, the effect of the Bible on human history is undeniable. Naturally, it's been open to all sorts of interpretations and opinions, often resulting in violence over the ages. I still can't imagine how anyone can take it literally even if there are a few nuggets of historical truth in it, much less subject modern people to it.

#bible #history #interpretation

Things Most People Get Wrong About The Bible
Read More: grunge.com/588529/things-most-

Grunge · Things Most People Get Wrong About The Bible - GrungeThe Bible continues to be an influential and controversial text. So it's no surprise there are common misconceptions of its material.
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JCLS

Jacke examines how #interpretation dependence challenges the computational #operationalization of literary #concepts, using #UnreliableNarration as a case study, and offers recommendations for handling complex, interpretation-dependent concepts. doi.org/10.48694/jcls.3959 #JCLS #LiteraryStudies

Journal of Computational Literary StudiesOperationalization and Interpretation Dependence in Computational Literary StudiesThis contribution discusses the relation between the (computational) operationalization of literary studies concepts and the property of interpretation dependence, which applies to many relevant literary studies research questions and poses specific challenges to operationalization. Using the attempt to operationalize the narratological concept of unreliable narration as an illustrative example, the paper addresses three crucial subtasks for operationalizing a concept (definition, identification of steps necessary to decide if it applies and the actual application) and explicates if and why interpretation dependence complicates them. The paper concludes with general recommendations for operationalizing complex concepts coupled with a high degree of interpretation dependence.
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