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"Significance" requires analysis in "objective relativist" terms, because it 
makes no sense to talk about x's being significant in itself, in entire abstraction 
from someone or somethingjor whom or which it's significant. At the same time, 
the relativity essential to the meaning of the concept cannot be merely de facto 
without making at least some prominent uses of the word unintelligible. There's 
nothing odd or contradictory, for example, in a theological teacher's replying to a . 
student, "You don't find Rudolf Bulbnann's theology significant? Well, you jolly 
well ought to find it significant!"
"Significance" requires analysis in "objective relativist" terms, because it makes no sense to talk about x's being significant in itself, in entire abstraction from someone or something or whom or which it's significant. At the same time, the relativity essential to the meaning of the concept cannot be merely de facto without facto without making at least some prominent uses of the word unintelligible. There's nothing odd or contradictory, for example, in a theological teacher's replying to a student, "You don't find Rudolf Bultmann's theology significant? Well, you jolly well ought to find it significant!"

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Such an event, then, could be rightly said to be of decisive significance for us- decisive significance for us—de jure as well as de facto !-provided —provided we so experienced it that it became the explicit authorizing source of the same answer to our fundamental question implicitly authorized by ultimate reality itself.

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