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Taxonomy vs Hermeneut - What's the difference?

taxonomy | hermeneut |

As nouns the difference between taxonomy and hermeneut

is that taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification while hermeneut is (philosophy) a practitioner of hermeneutics: someone who interprets a text.

taxonomy

English

(wikipedia taxonomy)

Noun

(taxonomies)
  • The science or the technique used to make a classification.
  • A classification; especially , a classification in a hierarchical system.
  • (taxonomy, uncountable) The science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms.

    • Synonyms

    * alpha taxonomy

    Derived terms

    * folk taxonomy * scientific taxonomy

    See also

    * classification * rank * taxon * domain * kingdom * subkingdom * superphylum * phylum * subphylum * class * subclass * infraclass * superorder * order * suborder * infraorder * parvorder * superfamily * family * subfamily * genus * species * subspecies * superregnum * regnum * subregnum * superphylum * phylum * subphylum * classis * subclassis * infraclassis * superordo * ordo * subordo * infraordo * taxon * superfamilia * familia * subfamilia * ontology

    hermeneut

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (philosophy) A practitioner of hermeneutics: someone who interprets a text
  • *{{quote-book, year=1857, date=May 25, author=Professor Lumsden, chapter=Conversion of the Jews, title=Proceedings of the Scotland Free Church General Assembly, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?pg=PA46&id=chsEAAAAQAAJ, page=46
    • , passage=Moses, full of sacrificial institutes, is the text, Isaiah and all the prophets are the hermeneuts
  • *{{quote-book, year=1989, chapter=Introduction, title=Post-Jungian Criticism, author=George H. Jensen, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=C7T_JwlcPJoC&pg=PA3&, page=3
    • , passage=He was a hermeneut who worked out striking interpretations of texts.}}
  • *{{quote-book, year=2008, title=Cambridge Companion to Jung, chapter=The Archetypal School, author=Michael Vannoy Adams, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=5dZUM7ogtQYC&pg=PA114, page=114
    • , passage=In short, Hillman is not a hermeneut but an imagist, or phenomenologist, who sticks to the image, adheres to the phenomenon, and adamantly refuses to interpret it, or reduce it to a concept.}}

    Synonyms

    *exegete *hermeneuticist *interpreter