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).