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Abstract
It is surely rather curious that phenomenological (or philosophical) hermeneutics, which is a systematic theory of human understanding in all its various forms, has been, and continues to be, so widely misunderstood. Perhaps, though, this is not such a surprising phenomenon after all, since, as phenomenology has shown, human understanding is of such a nature that it invariably tends to misunderstand itself. It is nevertheless somewhat odd-but perhaps also revealing-that the two chief ways in which hermeneutics is commonly misunderstood are diametrically opposed to one another.
