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Allowing that critical reflection, or critical appropriation, can be more or less critical; and allowing that the difference between more and less critical is the difference between criticizing solely by the ultimate -- or primal -- criteria of experience and reason based on experience, and criticizing by the merely consuetudinary criteria established in the given context of self-understanding and life-praxis -- allowing all this, one faces the question, But what makes critical interpretation, as distinct from critical validation, more rather than less critical? Or, alternatively, What, exactly, are the criteria of more rather than less, critical interpretation? And in what sense may they be said to be criteria of experience and reason based on experience?

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