“The image of the natural sciences that I had in mind when I conceived my ideas for Truth and Method was quite one-sided. It is now clear to me . . . that a whole broad field of hermeneutical problems has been left out. . . . Nevertheless, the fact that a hermeneutical problematic is present in the natural scienceswas already clear to me when I read Moritz Schlick’s convincing critique of the dogma of protocol sentences in 1934” (1997a, 41).