The notion that cognition unreflectively depends on its historical context plays a central role in Hans-Georg Gadamers philosophy. This study examines Gadamers theory of this context-dependence, and specifically addresses the frequent objection to Gadamer that a theory of unreflectiveness of the kind proposed by him reduces the very lack of reflection that it asserts. According to this objection, recognizing the limits of reflection shows that they have been overcome. As the study attempts to show, however, a distinction should be made bewteen a general idea of context-dependence and...