According to this Heidegger-Gadamer composite, interpretation is essentially circular, since we always approach the world or a text -- or the world as text -- with a particular disposition that colors our perceptions. However, we do not merely impose our own perspective, nor is interpretation merely subjective. Circularity comes as the world resists us, confronting us with elements that refuse to conform to our disposition and subsequently forcing us to reconfigure ourselves. Thus altered, we set ourselves upon the world once again, this time with transformed eyes. The process is incessant.
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