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he hermeneutics of suspicion trusts human rationality.

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False.

The "hermeneutics of suspicion" (a term from Paul Ricoeur) is skeptical of surface meanings and conscious explanations, treating them as masking deeper, hidden forces—ideology, unconscious drives, power relations—so it does not trust human rationality as fully reliable.