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When I write out my thinking in the form of a text, a critical thing happens:  It faces me as the thought of another, and I start to think of what it says as though another person had said it.  Almost unwittingly, a critical process comes into play.  In regarding the text as expressing the thought of another, I begin to see it from different POVs than the one that led to its writing.  As I find my own inquiry reflected in one or another TOI, it addresses me afresh as the question of another and I encounter it again as a novel line of investigation.  This time around, though, the topic of concern and the style of expression become subject to directions of criticism that would probably not occur to me otherwise, since the angles of attack permitting them do not open up on their own, neither on first thinking nor ever, most likely, while merely speaking.  This can be the beginning of critical reflection, but it can also stir up destructive forms of interference that inhibit and obstruct the very flow of thought itself.

When I write out my thinking in the form of a text, a critical thing happens:  It faces me as the thought of another, and I start to think of what it says as though another person had said it.  Almost unwittingly, a critical process comes into play.  In regarding the text as expressing the thought of another, I begin to see it from different POVs than the one that led to its writing.  As I find my own inquiry reflected in one or another TOI, it addresses me afresh as the question of another and I encounter it again as a novel line of investigation.  This time around, though, the topic of concern and the style of expression become subject to directions of criticism that would probably not occur to me otherwise, since the angles of attack permitting them do not open up on their own, neither on first thinking nor ever, most likely, while merely speaking.  This can be the beginning of critical reflection, but it can also stir up destructive forms of interference that inhibit and obstruct the very flow of thought itself.

If I can be granted the license to continue saying that a text says this or that about itself when what I really mean is that a person or process employs its text to say the corresponding thing about itself or its text, then I can begin to introduce a variety of descriptive terms and logical tools into this text that can be used to talk about what this or another TOI "thinks" or "believes" at various points in its development, that is, in order to detail what I or its proper author thinks or believes at the corresponding points of discussion.

If I can be granted the license to continue saying that a text says this or that about itself when what I really mean is that a person or process employs its text to say the corresponding thing about itself or its text, then I can begin to introduce a variety of descriptive terms and logical tools into this text that can be used to talk about what this or another TOI “thinks” or “believes” at various points in its development, that is, in order to detail what I or its proper author thinks or believes at the corresponding points of discussion.

Fourteen, a sonneteer thy praises sings;

Fourteen, a sonneteer thy praises sings;

What magic myst'ries in that number lie!

What magic myst'ries in that number lie!