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Comparisons, philosophy: here, we are concerned with the conditions under which it is possible to make comparisons. Objects which do not share any properties are not comparable. A comparison always refers to a singled out property among several properties embodied by more than one object. The prerequisite for comparisons is a consistency of language usage. See also analogies, description levels, steps, identification, identity, change, meaning change, ceteris paribus, experiments, observation.
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Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments.

 
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Hans-Georg Gadamer on Comparisons - Dictionary of Arguments

Gadamer I 237
Comparisons/Understanding/Dilthey: He explicitly justifies the fact that the humanities make use of comparative methods with their task of overcoming the accidental barriers represented by their own circle of experience "and ascending to truths of greater generality"(1).
GadamerVsDilthey: The essence of the
Gadamer I 238
comparison already presupposes the independence of cognitive subjectivity, which possesses both one and the other. It creates simultanity in a declared way.
Comparison/Gadamer: One must therefore doubt whether the method of comparing is really sufficient for the idea of historical knowledge. Is not a method that is at home in certain areas of the natural sciences and triumphs in some areas of the humanities, e.g. linguistics, law, art studies, etc.,(2) here being elevated from a subordinate tool to a central importance for the nature of historical knowledge, which often only gives superficial and non-binding reflection a false legitimation?
Comparisons/Paul Yorck von Wartenburg/Gadamer: Here one can only agree with Yorck von Wartenburg when he writes: "Comparison is always aesthetic, always adheres to the form"(3) and one remembers that before him Hegel had ingeniously criticized the method of comparison.(4)
I 401
Comparisons/Gadamer: [Linguistic interpretation] (...) is also present (...) where the interpretation is not of a linguistic nature at all, i.e. not a text at all, but rather a work of image or sound. One can demonstrate something by means of contrast, for example by placing two pictures next to each other or reading two poems next to each other so that one is interpreted by the other. In such cases, as it were, the demonstrating demonstration of the linguistic interpretation precedes.
But in reality this means that such a demonstration is a modification of linguistic interpretation. In what is shown there is then the reflection of the interpretation that uses showing as a vivid abbreviation. Showing is then an interpretation in the same sense that a translation, for example, summarizes the result of an interpretation.
>Translation/Gadamer, >Interpretation/Gadamer
, >Meaning change,
>Pointing, >Hermeneutics.


1. Dilthey, Ges. Schriften VII, 99.
2. An eloquent advocate of this is E. Rothacker, whose own contributions to the matter admittedly testify advantageously to the opposite: the "unmethod" of witty ideas and bold syntheses.
3. Paul Graf Yorck von Wartenburg, Briefwechsel, 1923, p. 193.
4. Wissenschaft der Logik Il, ed. Lasson 1934, p. 36f.

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Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments
The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition.

Gadamer I
Hans-Georg Gadamer
Wahrheit und Methode. Grundzüge einer philosophischen Hermeneutik 7. durchgesehene Auflage Tübingen 1960/2010

Gadamer II
H. G. Gadamer
The Relevance of the Beautiful, London 1986
German Edition:
Die Aktualität des Schönen: Kunst als Spiel, Symbol und Fest Stuttgart 1977


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