[quote=“Peter Kropotkin”]
imagine a room with 20 people standing in it…
you have no sense of context with just that information…
ok, I name those 20 people, Robin, Joe, Vaile, Gayla,
Caroline, Tim, Calle, Joey, Marline, and so on and so forth…
you still have no context, you can’t picture why those 20 people
are in a room… are they related, not related, are they just random
people or do they have some connection of some sort… until you have
more information you can’t actually make sense of those 20 people…
what is their context to each other if any context to each other…
how do we make sense of those 20 people being in the same room together…
how do we understand their place in the universe given this information?
I say, they are family and then you can begin to identify why they
are in the same room together. You can begin to create context
and understanding of their roles and relationships together…
you can create purpose and a why if you have enough information
about those 20 people…asking questions is one method of discovering
what is these 20 people relationship to each other… finding out
that Caroline is the mother… that information can suddenly
create even greater context, an understanding of their place
in the universe… you now have an understanding of their
context… perhaps a birthday party, a farewell, a funeral,
a party of some nature…and now you have a pretty good
understanding of their place and their context of those 20 people…
just knowing that there are 20 people standing in a room creates
no understanding, no context, no point or purpose of those 20 people…
but as you get information about those 20 people, you get the
context and point and meaning of those 20 people…you
create a meaningful point in the universe for those people…
you know their place in the universe and thus you also
know your context to those 20 people, perhaps you are related,
perhaps not…it still allows you to know your relationship to those
20 people…you know your place in the universe in regards to those
20 people…
thus it goes for science and philosophy and religion… it allows
you to know your context and place in the universe… each
discipline allows you context and understanding of where
you stand and where you stand in regard to the question at hand…
it create identity and context to ask questions…
and thus is not meaningless to ask such questions…
K: as we have created a scenario where we have 20 people
standing in a room… and thus we have a fact of some sort,
and how would you go about trying to understand the who, what,
when, where, how and why of that situation? you can randomly
ask question or you can by means of a method, go about
engaging in this question about the 20 people in the room…
thus the value of method… it is just a means of getting to the
bottom of this question of those 20 people in the room…
a method is just a logical method of trying to understand
the relationship of those 20 people in the room…
it is a tool to better figure out what those 20 people are
doing in the room…and as a tool, it is meant to
find out the answer in a comprehensive and complete
way, so you don’t make mistakes in your identification of
those 20 people… method is just a way of being
sure of your answer as to who are those 20 people…
Kropotkin