Try and you can...and you do....it is you, after all:)

And yet, the moment of learning was for you.......

And the meaning is for you....after all...it is you:)

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For it is necessary to keep one’s gaze fixed on the thing throughout all


the constant distractions that originate in the interpreter himself. (266-267)

However, a person who is trying to understand a text is always projecting. He projects a

meaning for a text as a whole as soon as some initial meaning emerges in the

text. Again, the initial meaning emerges only because he is reading the text

with particular expectations in regard to a certain meaning. Working out this

fore-projection, which is constantly revised in terms of what emerges as he

penetrates into the meaning, is understanding what its there. (267)

Every “revision of the fore-projection is capable of projecting before itself a new projection of

meaning” (267). That is, “interpretation begins with fore-conceptions that are replaced by

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more suitable ones. This constant process of new projection constitutes the movement of

understanding and interpretation” (267). The interpreter is distracted by “fore-meanings that

are not borne out by the things themselves. Working out appropriate projections, anticipatory

in nature, to be confirmed ‘by the things’ themselves is the constant task of understanding”

(267). The “only ‘objectivity’ here is the confirmation of a fore-meaning in its being worked

out” (267). Inappropriate fore-meanings, by contrast, “come to nothing in being worked out”

(267). The interpreter accordingly does not “approach the text directly” (267) but explores

the “legitimacy – i.e. the origin and validity – of the fore-meanings dwelling within him” (267).

"Intentionality is precisely such a principle. To claim that mental activity is intentional in structure is to claim, at the very least, that it is composed of two distinguishably different phases, which we shall designate as the "act phase" and the "object phase." In and through an act --"act" in the strict sense of mental act or act of consciousness--the mind directs itself onto and absorbs itself in a specific content. What is most remarkable in this self-transcending movement of mind is that what is aimed at in the content, the intentional object, need not be existent. In fact, such an object is always "intentionally inexistent": intended and yet not (qua intended) existent. In Brentano's celebrated description:"

From: Imagining: A Phenomenological Study
 
And yet the object of me is you...If I were to act...it is...and you are the act in me that makes me breathe.
 
As I was at the bottom..I breathed...and I thought about you..and I breathed...and they thought that I acted...but, I was only for you that I breathed..and you breathed..and I felt my need to move..and I breathed..and I felt you..for through you I breathed.  Give me a chance to live..I do not ask you..for you I love...