Article deals with theoretical problems related to concepts of interpretation, understanding and meaning. A relationship between the concepts is described. The connections between meaning and truth are subjected to a separate investigation. The article ends with an enumaration of several reductive tendencies marked in theoretical literature of aesthetics and, especially, epistemology of art, namely: one-sided cognitive conception of human experience; scientistic conception of knowledge; reduction of scientific knowledge to one of its form – natural sciences; lack of due attention to the historical dimension of human experience, etc
