Validity In Interpretation Booker Prize (1999) Publication Date: 01 Jul 2015

Publication Date: 01 Jul 2015

Lord Trevor Montgomery

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Validity In Interpretation Booker Prize (1999) Publication Date: 01 Jul 2015Professor Hirsch demonstrates convincingly that objectivity is attainable in humane studies, and that it is not identified with the subject but with the evidence. A valid interpretation is not necessarily a correct one, but one which is more probable than any other on the basis of existing evidence. He makes a subtle and important distinction between a text's 'meaning' (which does not change) and its 'significance' (which does), and brilliantly