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Granted that, as I argued, the efficacy of witness, as distinct from its validity, depends on how the recipient of the witness takes it -- namely, either as or not as an existential communication calling for decision about her or his own self-understanding understanding –  how the recipient takes the witness can hardly be completely independent of how the witness is borne -- namely, either as or not as just such an existential communication. On the contrary, if a witness is borne as though the response it calls for is something other or less than existential decision for or against one's own authentic possibility -- say, the response of intellectual acceptance of certain statements, believing that/about certain things, or adopting a certain world view -- then, surely, the recipient can, to some extent, be excused for responding accordingly. In other words, even if how the recipient takes the witness is indeed a necessary condition of its being efficacious, whether it is also the only condition is another question.

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