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I say there is little doubt about this because, whether or not someone "re-presents" a certain possibility of self-understanding _in the relevant sense of the words_ does not depend on whether or not certain empirical-historical statements about what she or he thought, said, and did can be verified by common human experience (that being what would be required by the other \-\- here irrelevant \-\- sense of saying that she or he "re-presents" \[or "re-presented"\] a certain possibility of self-understanding). It depends, rather, on whether or not someone is so experienced by another that she or he makes explicit to the other so experiencing her or him one of the other's own possibilities of self-understanding as the other's authentic possibility. But thus to experience someone is just what it means to have a particular _existential_\-historical experience of her or him, mediately if not immediately.