Answer to Question #195766 in Philosophy for Rearabetswe Maleka

Question

Which definition, provided below, best illustrates what “hermeneutics” is?

1 The philosophical discipline engaged with expressing, explaining, translating, and interpreting.

2 Invalid reasoning that suppresses relevant evidence, or contains questionable premises.

3 The fallacy that occurs when a word or phrase is used in one sense in one part of an argument 

and in a different sense in another part of the same argument.

4 An argument that asserts a claim of preference or a moral judgment about right and wrong, good 

and bad.

Answer 1

Hermeneutics is the science of understanding and interpretation of text or knowledge.

Therefore, choice 1 is the answer to this question. Because hermeneutics is a philosophical discipline that deals with expressing, explaining, translating, and interpreting texts and facts about nature.