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Ricœur

Ricœur proper noun: a surname from French — famously held by.

Proper noun

Ricœur

  1. A surname from French — famously held by
  2. Paul Ricœur (1913–2005), French philosopher who combined phenomenological description with hermeneutics.
    • Many existing textual models take for granted assumptions made by Ricœur who is one of the forestanding figures of a contemporary field referred to as hermeneutics (involved with a study of the theory and practice of texts).2003, Zachàr Alexander Laskewicz, Music as Episteme, Text, Sign & Tool: Comparative approaches to musicality as performance, chapter two: “The Musical Text”, § 2.10: ‘Conclusion: the importance of a...

Origin of Ricœur

From the French Ricœur.

Questions about Ricœur

What does Ricœur mean?
Ricœur means a surname from French — famously held by.
What part of speech is Ricœur?
Ricœur is a proper noun.

Words near Ricœur in the dictionary

  1. RICS
  2. rictal
  3. rictus
  4. rictuses
  5. ricy
  6. Ricœur
  7. Ricœurian
  8. rid
  9. rid a horse foaled by an acorn
  10. rid out
  11. rid up

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