interpreters and traditions, there will be a “veritable plethora”4 of interpretations, each relative to a different perspective. The text will be dissolved or dispersed at the cost of its identity. It will mean everything and therefore nothing. Thus Dilthey’s question: “But where are the means to overcome the anarchy of opinions that then threatens to befall us?”5 Objectivism in hermeneutics is the belief (hope, claim, dogma) that while interpretation can become subjective in
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