Friday, January 13, 2017

The Mirror Paradox of Interpretation

It is intriguing that sometimes a person’s interpretation reflects the person more than that which they interpret.  

This is the mirror paradox of interpretation. 

E.g., this statement of interpretation (either subjective or objective genitive, a statement resulting from interpretation or a statement about interpretation) “It is intriguing etc.” probably reflects me as much as it is an observation about how people tend to interpret. 

(Is the phenomenological reduction--putting preconceptions off the field of play--possible?)

A Person (P) has an observation (O)
and it is not the case that there is an observation without an interpretive event (I)
and it is not the case that there is an interpretive event without a Person reflecting the self (r)

Viz., P ends up with--what else?--P.

Nonetheless, if P interprets the information critically then they may understand the world in a new way albeit as P.  A human being perceives the world in a human way.  No surprise, but how much of that skews the information is part of the problem.

"...interprets the information critically" would take a lengthy article to make good on that subject.

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