Where chapters 1 to 4 arrive, in Gadamer's own terms, and the hinge at p. 386: understanding must take the form of language. This is also where the Institute's reading forks from Gadamer's route into chapter 5.

From the map. G: Five summative statements of the event-character of understanding, from chapters 2 and 4 with their pages; the stations and hooks that lead to them stay in the chapter branches. Foreword to the second edition: the concern is not what we do or ought to do, but what happens to us over and above our wanting and doing. M: This stage is Gadamer, not a synthesis. Its last three children are the hinge, the chapter 5 audit, and DGH's branch, so the fork between Gadamer's route and DGH's is visible at one node.

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How to respond. Start a topic for a station you want to contest, correct, or extend. Argue from the texts and give printed pages where you can; the map's notes give the Institute's page references. Readings that change the map are credited in the next version's changelog.