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It truly is exactly the accredited excellent of a testim ony and undoub tedly a necessary element o f all evi*Cf. VhL. P H I L O S OPHICAL FOUNDATI O N S 121 dence, nam el y , to testify with no realizing what o n e ' s personal assertion "means. " an identical state of affairs exists in an e xa m ina tion whilst a professor asks the candidate concocte d questions that no rational individual can solution. Heinrich von Kleist , wh o had himself been in the course of the Prussian nation examinations, took up this the m e in his attractive essay "On the sluggish Composition o f notion in Discourse. "* The criticis m of th e abstraction of the statement and the abstraction of natural percep tion has been radicalized via Heidegger 's trans c e n d e n tal-ontological inquiry. We needs to bear in mind, first o f all , that the concep t o f t h e truth, wh ich c o rresponds t o the concept that of natural conception and natural statement, used to be uncovered by means of Heideg ger as an ontological prejudice affecting the concept that of worth in addition. hence Heide gger confirmed the excellence among the j udgm e n t of fac t a n d the j u dgm en t of v al ue to be p ro b le m ati c, as though there can be a natural determ ination of fac ts in any respect . i want to symbolize the dim ension rev e aled right here because the herm eneu tical measurement. right here we discover the good- recognized p r o b l em that Hei degger ana lyzed below the name of the herm eneu tical circle . The prob l em concer n s the miraculous naivete of th e subj ectiv e c o n sciousness that, in attempting to unde rst and a te x t , say s "But that's what is written the following ! " Heidegger confirmed that this response is kind of usual , and o ften adequate a response of the hello gh es t self-critical worth. yet in tru th there's n oth i ng that's easily " th ere. " everything that's stated and is there within the tex t stands less than an ticip ations. this suggests, p ositiv e l y, that onl y what stands less than anticipation s might be understood in any respect , and never what one sim ply confronts as som ething unintelligible. the truth that inaccurate interpretations additionally come up fro m anticipa tions and, consequently, that the preju dices which m ake und er stan ding attainable additionally entail probabilities of mi su nder s ta n ding should be one o f the ways that the finitude of h uman nature o perates. A ne c essarily round m ovem ent is inv olv ed within the indisputable fact that we learn or comprehend wha t is t he re , yet still see what's there with our personal eyes (and our personal innovations ) . I t turns out t o me, m oreover, that this remark wishes a *Cf. Heinrich v o n Kleist , " Uber das a1lm iihliche Verfertigung der Gedanken beim Reden," i n Werke (Leipz ig : B ibliographisches Institu t , n . d . ) , vol. four, p p . 74·80. 1 22 P H E N O M E N O L O GY additional radicalization - one i've got formulated in my very own s tu dies within the following thesis : it truly is definitely right that we have got to appreciate what the writer meant "in his experience. " yet "in his feel " doesn't suggest "as he himself meant it. " I t m eans relatively that figuring out may also transcend the author's subj e ctive act of that means, and even perhaps neces s arily and consistently is going past it.