Hermeneutics as the Methodology of Interpretation of Languages and Texts of Extraterrestrial Intelligence

by Vira Dubinina¹ and Olga Tsybulco^2
1 Ukrainian Medical Stomatological Academy (Poltava, Ukraine)
² Mariupol State University (Mariupol, Ukraine)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.29202/phil-cosm/22/8
Received: October 15, 2018 / Accepted: November 28, 2018 / Published: January 25, 2019

In the paper, the authors emphasized the growth of number of publications in the authoritative scientific journals in which the fact of existence of extraterrestrial intelligence is approved and the features of communication with it are considered as well. All incoming information, which may relate to manifestations of extraterrestrial intelligence, a candidate SETI signal, is evaluated according to the Rio scale. The authors proposed to call a candidate SETI signal, which had reached according to the Rio scale maximum assessment — the SETI signal. The SETI signal is the established and scientifically proved fact of receiving a fragment of the text or the text of extraterrestrial intelligence. To interpret the SETI signal, the authors proposed to use the possibilities of hermeneutics. In the paper, the authors answered two questions: “Is it appropriate to use hermeneutics to interpret the SETI signal?” and “Does hermeneutics have any ability to interpret the SETI signal?” The authors showed briefly how to use the hypothetico-deductive method, or in what way it is possible to carry out interpretation of the SETI signal in five steps using the example. As a basis, the authors used the ideas of Chrysostomos Mantzavinos.

Keywords: hermeneutics; extraterrestrial intelligence; the Rio scale; SETI signal; hypotheticodeductive method; interpretation

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Dubinina, Vira and Olga Tsybulco (2019) Hermeneutics as the Methodology of Interpretation of Languages and Texts of Extraterrestrial Intelligence. Philosophy and Cosmology, Volume 22, 101-108. https://doi.org/10.29202/phil-cosm/22/8