When words and phrases change their meaning, we might find ourselves less able to understand and communicate, and this can be harmful to us. I make sense of this by introducing the concept of hermeneutical disarmament. Hermeneutical disarmament is the process by which a person is rendered less able to understand or communicate experiences, ideas, and other phenomena as a result of semantic change to the linguistic resources that could previously have been deployed for these purposes. I defend this concept by showing that semantic change can inflict cognitive and communicative harms and detail some of the forms that it can take.

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诠释学裁军


当单词和短语改变其含义时，我们可能会发现自己理解和交流的能力下降，这可能对我们有害。我通过引入解释学裁军的概念来理解这一点。解释学解除武装是一个过程，由于先前可用于这些目的的语言资源发生语义变化，导致一个人理解或交流经验、想法和其他现象的能力下降。我通过证明语义变化会造成认知和交流伤害来捍卫这个概念，并详细说明了它可以采取的一些形式。