The Effects of the Theory of Multiple Interpretations (Readings)

In the centuries followed the initiation of hermeneutic discussions in the West, the idea of permissibility of multiple interpretations, thanks to these discussions, was put forward. According to this idea, which is the outcome of philosophical hermeneutics, a writer's intent has no effect on the understanding of the text and a text is silent and cannot explain the meaning of its content. Therefore, the interpreter depends on his own mental presuppositions for understanding the meaning of the text.The question that is raised here is; if there are different possible interpretations of a text, are all these accidental (latitudinal) interpretations correct and compatible with reality? Is it possible to have interpretations that do not correspond to the text? It is taken for granted that to consider correct the multiple interpretations of a text which have opposite interpretations is not acceptable, and it is common sense to consider such a thing incompatible with many principles and axioms. Therefore, when we see that the requisites of this theory are unsound, we realize that the theory is invalid and unsound.Using an analytical-descriptive method, the present paper tries to examine some of the unsound reuisits of this theory. The theory which has irrational requisits and effects, is doomed to failure.