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    Challenges→Authentic aesthetic experience requires the spectator or reader to enact the same original mode of being-in-the-world as the artist.

    Requiring spectatorial re-enactment of authorial being collapses the ontological distinction between artwork and artist, which Gadamer's hermeneutics treats as essential to aesthetic truth.

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    Aesthetic truth(as used in aesthetics and philosophy of art)
    In philosophy of art, the genuine insight or authentic understanding we gain from experiencing an artwork.
    Authorial being(as used in aesthetics and interpretation theory)
    The actual person, life, and experiences of the artist who created a work of art.
    Collapses (in this philosophical context)(as used in philosophical argument)
    To break down or eliminate a distinction between two things that are normally considered separate.
    Gadamer(as the philosopher whose ideas about understanding are central to this statement)
    Hans-Georg Gadamer was a 20th-century German philosopher who studied how we understand texts, art, and history. He argued that our understanding is always shaped by our own time period and background.

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    Ontological distinction(as used in metaphysics)
    A fundamental difference in what something actually *is* or how it exists, rather than just surface-level differences.
    Ontology(Carnap argues this enterprise is based on a mistake)
    The philosophical discipline that tries to answer hard questions about what there really is.
    Spectatorial re-enactment(as used in aesthetics and art interpretation)
    The idea that to fully appreciate an artwork, you need to mentally recreate or relive what the artist experienced when they made it.
    hermeneutics(Central problem in the Japanese Pure Land tradition)
    The interpretive challenge of how the Buddha's teaching can be communicated to and correctly understood by ordinary beings given the gap between their awareness and the Buddha's enlightened wisdom

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