"Text" and Its Characters in the Horizon of Philosophical Hermeneutics:The Analysis on Gadamer's "Text"

Different from the ordinary text, Gadamer's " text" has its own characters: As to the definition, Gadamer's text is something written originally. It comes to us when we can't understand it completely, and it was classified into three levels according to the different possibility and the quality of understanding. In terms of text's characters, Gadamer's text is a hermeneutic concept. It is based on the ontology and is a phase of the process of understanding, but not the pure object of subject. It exists in the historical dialogues with readers. The final purpose of understanding the text is the proper application to oneself.