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but more particularly it arose in the humanities departments especially in in departments that were associated concentrating on literary criticism because the literary critics especially the french the post-modernist types came to a similar realization at some point um i'm condensing a lot of work here but their basic proposition was um well how do you know when you've landed on the proper interpretation of a text and the answer is well we don't know well so you take a text like hamlet um and you get a hundred students to write an essay about you know a particular stanza a set of stanzas uh soliloquy and a hundred of them have a hundred different opinions so like which opinion is right and if none of them are right well does the text mean anything if there can be a hundred different interpretations of only one tiny section of the text and you can't decide which interpretation is the right interpretation how do you know there's any interpretation at all and so how how do you know the text is meaningful in any real sense if you can't even agree on what the meaning is and you can certainly see how that problem be devil something like biblical criticism

Used as an example text in the context of literary criticism and the problem of multiple interpretations.

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