 Karelitzki, for instance, sides with Reinach and Conrad when it comes to distinguishing meaning from presentation, but he rebuts their central point that meaning is always blind, i.e., that it can never get sight of the object (1914: 33f). Karelitzki argues that, although meaning is generally blind, it does not have to be so: he presents an example in which someone asks the question “what do you mean with…?” and the addressee of the question gives a characterization of what was meant, hence bringing the meaning act step by step closer to what Karelitzki calls the “essence” of the meant object (1914: 36).