{'fraction_non_alphanumeric': 0.026331538001196888, 'fraction_numerical': 0.0005984440454817474, 'mean_word_length': 5.634920634920635, 'pattern_counts': {'":': 0, '<': 0, '<?xml version=': 0, '>': 0, 'https://': 0, 'lorem ipsum': 0, 'www.': 0, 'xml': 0}, 'pii_count': 0, 'substrings_counts': 0, 'word_list_counts': {'cursed_substrings.json': 0, 'profanity_word_list.json': 0, 'sexual_word_list.json': 0, 'zh_pornsignals.json': 0}}
Hermes, Clio, Themis: Historical Interpretation and Legal Hermeneutics

The theory of interpretation has enjoyed a considerable revival of interest in recent years, especially in relation to historical methods. 1 Intellectual fashion aside, the main attraction of hermeneutics seems to be its promise of alternatives to intimidating behaviorist, quantitative, or abstractstructuralist approaches to the human sciences. In the pandemonium of "scientific" methods for the study of society and culture the one common feature has been the attempt in one way or another to do away with the thinking subject. In the name of scientific objectivity, psychoanalysts and Marxists have likewise looked for impersonal forces below, or beyond, the level of consciousness; functionalists and structuralists have sought patterns, or codes, which likewise transcend, or subsume, human behavior; "deconstructionist" literary critics have subordinated authorial intention and consciousness to the medium of discourse, whether language or "writing"; and "new" economic and social historians have cast their explanations in statistical and serial terms which make personality, quality, and perhaps values irrelevant. Each of these lines of inquiry undeniably has value and its own insights, but each is also threatened by some sort of reductionism, and none can tell the whole truth. In particular each tends to neglect, or to misconstrue, the role of the observer, which is to say the interpreter, usually by affecting to replace judgment by a technique. Now despite Kierkegaard's urging, subjectivity may not be truth, but neither is technique. What hermeneutics proposes is to accommodate