The Inner Word in Gadamer’s HermeneuticsThis intellectual history and textual analysis of Hans Georg Gadamers famous and obscure theme of the verbum interius, or inner word, serves as an indispensable guide to and reference for hermeneutic theory. John Arthos here gives a full exposition and interpretation of the medieval doctrine of the inner word, long one of the most challenging ideas in Gadamers Truth and Method. The scholastic idea of a word that is thought but not yet spoken served