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2005-10-21 10:39:15
Thanks a lot, it was just that i was hopping to get.

For the people who brag against, if they read my first post, i was
asking for something that i was sure i've read on the list, and even
if it's off-topic and not related to xsl, it was on this list. I was
trying and hoping the original poster remembers it and point me to the
right direction, as it did happen.

Thanks again, David, for remember it and

On 10/21/05, Wendell Piez <wapiez(_at_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com> wrote:
Dear Antonio,

I think I remember that thread; I probably posted to it.

There is a principle discussed in philosophy (epistemology) called
the "hermeneutic circle", which goes back to the nineteenth and
twentieth centuries (Schleiermacher, Dilthey, Heidegger, Gadamer).

Some more or less random Googling:

http://www.press.jhu.edu/books/hopkins_guide_to_literary_theory/hermeneutics-_1.html

http://www.capurro.de/ny86.htm

I don't recall the specific point that this paradox (needing to know
something in order to learn it) is dealt with in practice by the
making of assumptions and acceptance of basic principles on "say-so"
until they are understood: maybe that was our contribution and not
part of the classic literature (though it's hard to imagine it
doesn't touch on this aspect).

I hope that helps,
Wendell

At 09:12 AM 10/21/2005, you wrote:
I'm sorry for the OT, but i've spend two days searching the list
archives and my personal mail archive and couldn't find what i'm
looking for.

Some months ago i recall a post on this lists about learning xslt /
serching for information, in wich the author refres to a theory, or
theorm, or postulate, that basically says something like

"the difficulty in learning something is not knowing in what part of
the subject one must start learning, since one knows nothing about it"

The author of that post also mention that it's because of such a
theorem that the learning process starts by assuming some "absolute
truths" like dogmas or postulates, start from there to learn the
subject, and later get back to those dogmas to understand why they are
true.

So can someone knows what is that theory, what's is name and author,
or something related to?

Once again, sorry for the OT, and thanks for any help.

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