By Schubert Ogden
Why do I speak of the second level of understanding as "critical reflection and proper theory"?
I do so, presumably, because I have no interest in denying-indeeddenying—indeed, every interest in affirming-thataffirming—that, already on the first level of "selfunderstanding self-understanding and life-praxis," understanding is certainly present, and so the same may be said for "theory" in a broad, improper sense of the word.
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