Okay, it could be a bit of a problem if this text has become the basis for a system of religious faith or belief, and your assumptions about it are that its telling a truth that is singular in nature.

如果这本书成为一些宗教信念系统的基本,那就有问题了,你会臆断，这本书上的都是真确的，都是非凡的。

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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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