1765.If "interpretation" and "experience" can...

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If "interpretation" and "experience" can be understood in at least three different senses, isn't the same true of "reason" also?

Yes, "reason," too, can be understood in at least the following three senses"

(1) in the proper sense as only one of the two levels of living understandingly, i.e., the secondary level of critical reflection and proper theory;

(2) in the broad sense as both levels of living understandingly, i.e., the primary level of self-understanding and life-praxis as well as the secondary level of critical reflection and proper theory; and

(3) in the narrow sense as only the second of the two moments of experience in the proper sense, i.e., the moment of thought, belief, interpretation, theorizing, judgment, etc. about what is given, prehended, or intuited, the first moment being givenness, prehension, or intuition.

27 March 1999