Roughly stated, conceptions of the language underlying our analyses and interpretations of ’things’ are divisible into two categories. ‘Analytic’ approaches start from the premise that the language we dispose of is an insufficient basis to acquire knowledge or reach understanding. ‘Hermeneutic’ approaches, relying more on interpretion, rather conceive of the language given as the most direct, or even the only source of information we have.
Both angles of incidence are mutually exclusive; yet, they agree abou…
