Interpretation cannot be fully captured by any single definition

Evidence

But one cannot confine Tilden’s definition of interpretation to this one sentence; certainly he didn’t. Though he worked on the concepts of interpretation for twenty-five years, Tilden confessed to the young Walt Dabney that as late as the 1970s (years after he wrote Interpreting Our Heritage) he still didn’t know exactly what interpretation was. He told Dabney that he had written a lot of definitions but was “never completely satisfied with them.” Dabney then noted Tilden’s insightful offhand remark: “It’s something individual, somethingthat comes from knowledge and doing, but you’ve got to feel it.” — Freeman Tilden, Interpreting Our Heritage, 70

Categorization

• APHORISMS: ‘Something individual, something that comes from knowledge and doing, but you’ve got to feel it’ reads as genuine craft wisdom for interpreters.
• XREF: connects to: Tilden’s provocation principle derives from Emerson’s Divinity School Address — Freeman Tilden, Interpreting Our Heritage, 81; Symbolic forms are context-specific and cannot anchor a definition — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 906

Broader Connections

• Symbolic forms are context-specific and cannot anchor a definition #corroborates (0.82) — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 906