"Right now, I'm telling you about what Gadamer believes and thinks, but Gadamer himself says this is impossible." Call me unenlightened, but to my way of thinking this is reason enough to conclude that Gadamer isn't worth my time. 1/2
https://twitter.com/ZoharAtkins/status/1442148000067842048
Either what he says about his thinking is true, in which case it is futile to try to understand him, much less to make use of his ideas; or it isn't, in which his opinions concerning the impossibility of arriving at any objectively "correct" understanding others' ideas) is false.
It was owing to this understanding that, back in the mid '80s, when the hermeneutics fad was going full-bore at GMU econ., where I was briefly employed, I called it "godam'ermeneutics" and would have nothing to do with it.
And that explains, to no small degree, that "briefly"!
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