It is not necessarily a good assumption.
Or put it this way. Aristotle tried hard to write what he meant. But what was Plato doing? Was he writing what he meant? Was he writing what Socrates meant or Thrasymachus meant? Or was he writing to "turn you around"? Writing to turn you around is not necessarily the same as writing what you mean.
Schopenhauer was writing what he meant. But Nietzsche was writing to turn you around, somehow.
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