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Perhaps another way of clarifying the same difference is to say that talk about "die Sache" of the text, or, in English, what the text is about, is ambiguous, insofar as it can refer either to a reality beyond the text or to the meaning of the text, as distinct from the text itself. By "die Sachkritik," then, * one can mean either critical validation of the claim of the text to be appropriate to the reality beyond it that it is about – and this is what I mean by a "transcendent criticism" -- or critical interpretation of the text, of what the text says, by reference to what it means, i.e., by reference to the question it asks and its answer to this question -- which is what I mean by an "immanent criticism."

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