The term hermeneutics derives from the Greek "ἑρμηνευτικός" or "hermeneutikos"; with lexical compounds such as "hermeneuo" which is equivalent to "I decipher", "tekhné" which means "art" plus the suffixes "tikos" which means "related to", therefore, according to its etymology it can be said that the word refers to the art of explaining, interpreting or deciphering texts, writings, etc. the RAE presents three possible definitions for the word hermeneutics, among which one of them states that it is about everything related to and pertaining to hermeneutics. Another of the possible meanings states that it is the art of deciphering texts and writing, especially the so-called "sacred" in order to find their true meaning.
It is estimated that the word comes from the Greek god Hermes, the Olympian messenger god, who is presumed to be the origin of writing and language but also considered the patron of human understanding and communication, all this according to the Greeks. In its origins, hermeneutics reflected the explanation and understanding of a mysterious and incomprehensible sentence of the oracle or gods, which detailed a correct interpretation.
For the Argentine philosopher, epistemologist and humanist, Mario Bunge, hermeneutics is the analysis of writings in literary criticism, theology and philosophy, it is in the latter that it alludes to the idealistic doctrine or discipline according to which events social and perhaps also natural are symbols or texts that must be described and exhibited objectively.
For its part, in the philosophical field, specifically in the philosophy of Hans-Georg Gadamer, defined as the hypothesis of truth and the method that expresses the universalization of the interpretive phenomenon from the concrete and personal historicity.
