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Q: The equivocation question. If the hinge borrows the narrow sense (conversation) and chapter 5 establishes only the broad sense (intelligibility, "any language that things have"), then DGH's relational order and Gadamer's broad language coincide, and the only live disagreement is world versus environment (pp. 459–461). Gadamer raises the worry himself in the Foreword (does universality require that everything be only language?).

Passages: pp. 386, 459–461, 490–491

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