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But more than that, I have recognized all along, at least since The Reality of God (28 f.), that, in all of the different fields of reasoning or argumentation oriented by, and corresponding to, our vital interests and questions, there are two kinds (better: levels) of such reasoning. Therefore, while it was indeed Habermas who subsequently confirmed the importance ofthis distinctio~ of this distinction, and to whose way of making it I am keenly conscious of being indebted in all of my more recent work, it has been explicitly anticipated in my thinking from its formative stage on.

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