Both of Gadamer and Rorty appreciate the creative value of reader in the interpretation of text, and thus reject that there is an original meaning of the text as the ultimate standard of interpretation. However, the creative interpretation proposed by Rorty takes the intention of reader as the standard which cannot make difference between creative interpretation and over-interpretation, thus leading to the relativism of interpretation. Although Gadamer recognizes that there is a dimension of 'over-' in interpretation, he does not erase the limit between creative interpretation and over-interpretation. In stead, he proposes three indexes to judge the quality of interpretation: the principle of the wholeness of text, the principle of otherness of dialogue, and effective history. The difference beneath these two kinds of hermeneutics lies in the difference of the philosophical positions of phenomenology and empiricism.