By Schubert Ogden
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Thus, for example, instead of distinguishing, as I usually do, simply between "witness" and "theology, II I could first distinguish between witness and theology on the primary level of living understandingly, where theology consists in the precritical reasoning immediately involved in bearing witness; and only then distinguish, second, between both witness and theology on the primary level and theology on the secondary level, where theology consists in the properly critical reasoning involved in both critically interpreting the meaning of bearing witness and critically validating the claims to validity made or implied in bearing it.
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