The Hermeneutic circle (n.) is a manifest circularity: If we must first define an entity in its being and if we want to formulate the question of being on this basis, we must presuppose something which only the answer can bring.
The Hermeneutic circle (n.) is a mode of investigation whereby what is decisive is not to get out of the circle but to come into it in the right way.
The Hermeneutic circle (n.) is, in fact, no circle but rather is a kind of 'presupposition' having the character of taking a look beforehand, a 'provisionally articulatedness' in the being of things.
The Hermeneutic circle (n.) is a seemingly paradoxical construct whereby every seeking gets guided beforehand by what is sought. This seeking takes the form of 'investigating' : Any inquiry has 'that which is asked about' and 'that which is interrogated' and 'that which is to be found out by the asking'.
The Hermeneutic circle (n.) is not circular reasoning but rather a remarkable relatedness backward or forward. In the question of the meaning of being, Being bears to the inquiry itself as a mode of being of an entity.
The Hermeneutic circle (n.) is a thing which, in the analysis of dasein, we must dive right into in order to make sure that even at the start we have a full view of dasein's circular being.
The Hermeneutic circle (n.) is the problem of grasping the being of entities in a distinctive kind of logoi (letting something be seen), so that this being becomes intelligible in advance as that which it is -and as that which it is already in every entity.
The Hermeneutic circle (n.) is the problem of leaping into a fore-sight (and doing so in the right way) rather than approaching a subject matter from the outside, which necessarily means taking a perspective, a perspective which, once taken, determines what one will find.
The Hermeneutic circle (n.) is the essential fore-structure of Dasein itself.
The Hermeneutic circle (n.) is a circularity in the act of interpretation. It works like this: how can you recognize and judge some specific factor in a situation or text without a general sense of the situation or text overall, yet how can you have this overall sense without somehow first ascertaining its parts
The Hermeneutic circle (n.) is not a problem about making successive approximations but a problem about how to get started at all.
The Hermeneutic circle (n.) is the idea that how we classify the current context itself depends on the relevant information.