We can't possibly know what the author meant except on the basis of our determination of the meaning of the text, so why not just focus our attention to meaning on the text?

我们无法知道作者是什么意思,除非以我们对文本意思的分析为基础，因此，为什么不仅仅将我们的注意力,集中在文本的意思上呢？

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