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However, where they disappear to too great an extent one must admittedly rely on the next higher individuality,

11 The idiosyncrasy of style is partly idiosyncrasy of composition, partly
idiosyncrasy of linguistic usage.

10. Every utterer has an individuality of style which appears everywhere, In common writing it seems to disappear, but it is the same with this as with all individuality If one first takes what is common in large quantities it yet forms itself again into [recognisable] groups and in this way one still finds further differences.

18. Every individual element in any discourse gives a direction towards a multiplicity.
Because there is a multiplicity of manners of use for every element which immediately accrue to the word.
to. The understanding of the individual element is therefore conditioned by the understanding of the whole.
According to Introduction this is therefore also particularly the case for the grammatical side.

i. Hermeneutics rests on the fact of the non-understanding of discourse: taken in its most general sense, including misunderstanding in the mother tongue and in everyday life.
2. Non-understanding is partly indeterminacy, partly ambiguity of the content.
So it is thought of without any fault on the part of the utterer.

Början: Generell hermaneutik

The idea of the author vouches for his significance, not his individuality, but the way in which he presents the idea does vouch for his individuality. For this depends upon the particular organisation of his capacity for intuition.

1. Discovering the individuality in the composition
In general the procedure is as follows: The unity of the whole is grasped and then one sees how the individual parts relate to it overall. The former shows the idea of the author as a basis, the latter his particular way of taking hold of it and presenting it.

In the first of these one must include the state which the particular genre to which the work belongs was in before his time; to the second what w as usual in this particular and most closely adjoining area. Therefore no p re, cise understanding of this kind without knowledge of the contemporary related literature and of what was given to the author as an earlier example of the style.

Individual intuitions is not only never exhausted but also alw ays capabi of correction. One can also see this by the fact that the best test is und oubte edly imitation. But as this is so rarely successful and higher criticism is still susceptible to confusions, we must still be fairly far from our objective.

For if I have seen through everything particular then there is nothing left td understand. It is also obvious that the relative opposition of the understanding of the particular and the understanding of the whole is mediated via the fact that every part allows the same treatment as the whole. But the objective is only achieved in continuity.

The final objective of psychological (technical) explication is also nothing but the developed beginning, namely, to look at the whole of the act in its parts and in each part to look in turn at the material as that which moves and the form as the nature which is moved by the material.

4o. Everything which is more or less redundant, as it must after all have a basis, must have emerged either with regard to the musical in language or from a mechanical attraction, and one must he able to prove one of the two ifone maim to regard something as redundant.

3. Second Canon. The sense of every word in a given location must be determined according to its being-together with those that surround it.

The more strict practice assumes that misunderstanding results as a matter ofcourse and that understanding must be desired and sought at every point.

2. But even it must, however, have recourse to art in difficult cases, and that is how hermeneutics arose from the practice which is free of art.

15. The more lax practice in the art assumes that understanding results as a matter of course and expresses the aim negatively: misunderstanding should be avoided.
1. Its presupposition depends upon that fact that it is primarily concerned with insignificant things, or at least only wishes to understand for the sake of a particular interest, and therefore sets itself limits which are easy to implement.

språk som komplex av representationer och relationer mellan representationer.

tal som förmedlande av tanke.

3. lust as the art of speaking and understanding stand opposite each other (and correspond to each other), and speaking is only the external side of thought, so is to hermaneutics thought to be connected to art and is therefore philosophical.

2) If we always proceed in an artistic manner, then we in the last analysis come anyway to an unconscious application of the rules without having left the artistic behind.

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1) Even where we think we can proceed in a manner which is most free of art [i.e. solely via the following of rules], often unexpected difficulties arise, the bases for the solution of which must lie in the earlier point of view [i.e. where there is no consciousness of rules]. We are therefore always obliged to pay attention to what can become the basis of a solution.

Disagreement of any kind presupposes the acknowledgement of the sameness of an object, as well as the necessity of the relationship of thought to being.

ur introduktion. Jacobi.