The image is a minimalist, two-dimensional illustration with a soft beige background, featuring yellow-orange roads and winding teal rivers. A magnifying glass on the right zooms in on the word "London," and the scale revealing key map's context. The warm colour palette creates a clean, modern look, symbolising the idea of context or interpretation in a broader contextless data consumption and context-full, real world.
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Are Facts Possible Without Context?

ByReason Praxis | Make Sense

Can facts exist independently of context? While facts are often seen as objective truths, closer examination reveals that they rely on underlying systems of meaning. This article explores a logical progression of ideas, leading to the conclusion that no fact exists without context. It also clarifies that recognising context-dependence does not imply relativism and that reality itself exists independently of beliefs, perceptions, or democratic processes. It is crucial to make sense of contextless…