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    It is not the case that The hermeneutical experience of truth is not a blind acceptance of the authority of tradition

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    • 1.Gadamer's 'effective history' (Wirkungsgeschichte) constitutes the very horizon within which questioning occurs, making tradition structurally prior to critique.
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    • 2.A questioning that is itself shaped by tradition cannot serve as an independent standard for adjudicating which prejudices tradition validates.
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    • 1.Habermas argues that Gadamer's hermeneutics lacks reflexive access to systematically distorted communication produced by ideology and power.
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    • 2.Without a critical methodology external to tradition, the distinction between valid and invalid prejudices collapses into tradition's own self-legitimation.
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    • 1.Interpretive experience unfolds through the questioning of our prejudices
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    • 2.Interpretive experience involves judgment about which aspects of our prejudices remain valid and which have become invalid for matters of concern to us now
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