Hermeneutic Approach to the Brain: Process versus Device?
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https://doi.org/10.12775/ths.2002.035Keywords
hermeneutic approach, brain, phenomenology, philosophy,Abstract
Hermeneutics, the art of the interpretation, is applied to brain. The relevance of : ?ncepts of hermeneutic processes and hermeneutic devices to brain theory are explained.References
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