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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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