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    The interpreter should develop grasp of linguistic usage,... — Carmelics
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    The interpreter should develop grasp of linguistic usage, contextual facts, and relevant sensations to the point of immediacy and automaticness

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    • 1.The original author and audience understood the text with immediacy and automaticness
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    • 2.Genuine understanding of a text requires replicating the phenomenological character of that original understanding
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    • 3.Such immediacy gives interpretation the phenomenology of feeling rather than effortful cognition
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    • 1.Gadamer's hermeneutic circle shows understanding is always mediated by the interpreter's own historical horizon, never immediate or automatic.
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    • 2.The 'fusion of horizons' that constitutes genuine understanding is irreducibly dialogical and cannot collapse into the original author's standpoint.
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    • 3.Immediacy in interpretation masks the productive role of temporal and cultural distance, which reveals meaning unavailable to original audiences.
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    • 1.Wittgenstein's rule-following considerations show that automaticness in following linguistic rules is not comprehension but mere behavioral regularity.
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    • 2.Genuine understanding requires the capacity to articulate and justify usage in novel cases, which automatic responses by definition cannot provide.
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    Herder proposes (prominently in This Too a Philosophy of History, for instance) that the way to bridge radical mental difference when interpreting is through Einfühlung, “feeling one’s way in”. This proposal has often been thought (for example, by Friedrich Meinecke) to mean that the interpreter should perform some sort of psychological self-projection onto texts. However, that is not Herder’s main idea here—for making it so would amount to advocating just the sort of distorting assimilation of
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