 In Gadamer’s philosophical hermeneutics, the experience of truth does not demand that we liberate ourselves from the authority of tradition, but, on the contrary, recognizes tradition as a possible source of our claims of truth. To be sure, tradition is not therefore a foundation of claims to truth. Tradition is, after all, a process of transmission, which is ultimately “ungroundable” and “underivable” (Gadamer, Truth and Method, 254, translation  modified).[6]  Yet, even if it is not a foundation, tradition is a legitimate interpretive wellspring, in the sense that it makes possible and shapes all understanding.