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I argued some time ago that "one must be careful not to mislocate [the] 'objective' component [sc. of the revelatory correlation] .... [T]he 'objective' component is not simply the something taken, but the something taken in that particular way -- namely, as re-presenting a certain possibility of self-understanding, which itself is then taken to be the possibility of understanding oneself authentically. Accordingly, the relevant question in determining whether or not what is taken to be revelation really is so is not whether someone has re-presented our authentic possibility by what she or he has intended to say and do, or has, in fact, said and done, but whether the possibility that someone is taken to re-present is correctly taken as that authentic possibility" (Notebooks, 15 November 1999; rev. 7 December 2008).

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