Is There a Second Order Reflection?

The word theory is pretty loaded and it's, and that there's a tendency to confuse a bunch of different versions of what that word could possibly mean. We might think of one like a lower case theory, which, you know, people use to refer to an explanatory generalization maybe or system of observations like the theory of gravity. But maybe there might be a second use of theory, capital T theory, which people use to referring to particular canon of texts and body of interpretive methods. And there's a third, but more basic sense of theory, which is a kind of second order reflection. It's often an unspoken background in your work because we're presuming things about how

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