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The Limits of Understanding Each Other’s Words

Summary/Abstract: What happens, in fact, when the participants of a debate attempt to understand each other’s words? What is the relationship between understanding, making something understood, understanding each other’s words, agreement, and consensus? Philosophical hermeneutics focuses on the topic of understanding. It seems, however, that only the analysis of the conditions and limits associated with understanding each other’s words can lead us to the explorative and interpretive “understanding” of the process of understanding itself. The study argues that it is the phenomenon of understanding each other’s words that offers an actual perspective of the linguistic medium and communicative dimension of understanding; although it does not follow from this that the phenomenon of understanding each other’s words could be identified with making something understood, and even less so with understanding as such.

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