The subject's interpretation of the work retains the correctness of subjective consciousness, but never able to reproduce the subjective emotion of the author when creating. It lies in the transformation of two misinterpretations, the first one is the author's misinterpretation of the world, and the second one is the transformation of meaning thinking, i.e., the reader's misinterpretation of the work. The work itself is not a perfect linguistic imitation of the objective world, nor can the author make a perfect reproduction, for no work can perfectly reproduce anything in the objective world. The Astorian hermeneutic of ‘seeing the process of understanding as a reproduction of the process of creation’ provides a good example of the phenomenon of the misreading of post-Chinese philosophical writings by later scholars, which has occurred through the passage of time.

Astor;Hermeneutics;Misreading;Chinese philosophy

[1] Monograph [M]: Richard E. Palmer: Hermeneutics, Commercial Press, Beijing, 2012.

DOI： https://doi.org/10.62639/sspjiss13.20250201

Published： 2025