Sentence:  Many existing textual models take for granted assumptions made by <WSD>Ricœur</WSD> who is one of the forestanding figures of a contemporary field referred to as hermeneutics (involved with a study of the theory and practice of texts). 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Paul Ricœur (1913–2005), French philosopher who combined phenomenological description with hermeneutics