Welcome to Bookmarker!

This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

Source code on GitHub (MIT license).

the process of interpreting a text or portion of text in such a way that the process introduces one's own presuppositions, agendas, or biases into and onto the text

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eisegesis
eisegetical



This is, bluntly, eisegesis—it is reading-in, placing a message into the text that simply isn’t there with an overlay of mysticism to give you plausible deniability about what you’re doing.

—p.149 How To Be Religious (II): Fundamentalism (137) by Phil Christman
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11 months, 4 weeks ago


this articulation on Wallace's part seems more eisegetical or even projective than accurate

on DFW saying that Wittgenstein was motivated by a horror of solipsism

—p.96 "Something to Do with Love": Writing and the Process of Communication (93) by Clare Hayes-Brady
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6 years, 9 months ago