自然科学的归纳法方法论与客观性概念不适用于精神科学，伽达默尔通过考察古典人文主义的教化、共通感、判断力和趣味四个概念，一方面批判了康德为主的主观主义对精神科学的影响，另一方面找到了美学作为精神科学方法论的指向。伽达默尔在黑格尔与海德格尔关于精神、真理生发事件以及意义开启等概念的基础上，选取了游戏的概念来解释艺术真理的生发过程，从意义的向度理解真理。艺术游戏是艺术作品的存在方式，真理形式就体现在，既是艺术作品展开的真实存在，也是观赏者在艺术作品中对自我存在的发现。艺术游戏是伽达默尔哲学诠释学揭示真理形式的重要出发点，真理就是以游戏的形式所展开的，这也就是伽达默尔为精神科学找到的新的方法论。

The inductive methodology and the objectivity concept of natural science are not suitable for spiritual science. By investigating four concepts of classical humanism including cultivation, common sense, judgment and interest, Gadamer not only criticized the influence of Kant’s subjectivism on spiritual science, but also found aesthetics as a direction of the methodology of spiritual science. Based on Hegel and Heidegger’s concepts of “Geist”, “Geschehen”, and “Sinner?ffnung”, Gadamer chose the concept of game to explain art and the “Sinner?ffnung” of art’s truth. And he understood the truth from a direction of meaning. The art game is the way which works of art exist. And the form of truth is embodied in the real existence of art’s works and the discovery of self-existence in the works of art. The art game is an important starting point for Gadamer's philosophical hermeneutics to reveal the form of truth. The truth is developed in the form of games, which is Gadamer's new methodology of spiritual science.