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Interpretivism vs Originalism - What's the difference?

interpretivism | originalism |

As nouns the difference between interpretivism and originalism

is that interpretivism is antipositivism while originalism is the view that a text should be interpreted according to the intent of its original authors.

interpretivism

English

Noun

  • antipositivism
  • qualitative research
  • A school of cultural anthropological thought founded by (Franz Boas).
  • (legal) A school of thought holding that law is not a set of given data, conventions or physical facts, but what lawyers aim to construct or obtain in their practice.

    • Related terms

    * interpretivist * interpretivistic

    originalism

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia originalism) (-)
  • The view that a text should be interpreted according to the intent of its original authors.

    • Related terms

    *originalist