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    It is not the case that 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.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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    Reason for 2 of 2
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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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    • 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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