May 2022 – A Digital Ivory Tower

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On Hermeneutics and Computing

Is there a conceptualization of “the hermeneutic method”, which can be directly supported by computational tools?

Clio‘s attributes are papyrus and stylus, not the violin.
Well … some people in antiquity did show her with a Lyra; a Lyra still is not a violin, however.
Somebody in fifteenth century’s Einbeck did show her with a violin. This is wrong for a learned humanist; but it was his/her statement and inheritance.
To understand the fifteenth century we have therefore to represent what is there, even if we know it to be wrong.
Sources may be commented, but never “corrected”.
We need systems to handle information, which is just as
wrong, inconsistent, contradictory and vague, as the
historical sources are.