TimeSeeker wrote: ↑Mon Oct 01, 2018 10:31 amTo put it simply: Linguistically - context confers meaning. A symbol must be interpreted IN the context that it was used.
That is the nature of any paradigm, any narrative, any Gestalt, any Weltanschauung absolutely any point of view and any language that is derived from it. Long story short-philosophers have traditionally tried to create a narrative, to a large degree, that is what philosophy is, even if it is a 'scientific' philosophy like 'spacetime' or m-theory. This pretty much came to a head in the middle of the 20th century, when logical positivists, in an attempt to shore up what was fundamentally Russell and Whitehead's logical atomism and inspired by Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico Philosophicus, finally conceded that actually, it was the later Wittgenstein who was on the money. Since then, the odd throwback notwithstanding, it is generally accepted that science is a human endeavour, subject to human foibles, pretty much as Kuhn stated. And yes, we can try to find 'objective' principles (there is a fine book by Daston and Galison, for anyone with an attention span exceeding 5 minutes), but we have to be aware of confirmation bias, the best protection against which is peer review, which works best by people who are critical; as Popper advised.
Sorry if that is too long for you.