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Q: Habermas, 'On Hermeneutics' Claim to Universality' (1970), in Mueller-Vollmer, ed., The Hermeneutics Reader (Continuum 1985), pp. 294–319; PDF viewer page = printed + 13. At pp. 300–301 Piaget's prelinguistic structures may limit hermeneutic universality: 'This complex of questions still awaits its resolution.' At pp. 308–310 creative linguistic success is tied to emancipation. The direct test of Ricoeur's objection against this text has not been done. M: the same pre-linguistic gap our coping claim names appears here in Habermas's own words. Check: 'still awaits its resolution' verified in the PDF on 2026-11-01.

Passages: Habermas, On Hermeneutics’ Claim to Universality, pp. 300–301, 308–310

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