Ab stract In this in tro duc tory ar ti cle to the vol ume of the South Af ri can Jour nal of Phi loso phy in trib ute of HansGeorg Gada mer, the author, first, makes a few re marks about the na ture of her me neu tics and Gadamer's views on the uni ver sal ity of the her me neu ti cal ex pe ri ence. This uni ver sal ity is, in par ticu lar, ex plained from the per spec tive of the “lin guis ti...