The Tao

The Book of Chuang Tzu, composed sometime in the 4th century BCE, teaches that "meaning depends entirely upon context and that there is no such thing as a 'fact' which stands apart from the context of the speaker." (from the Introduction to the Penguin Classics edition, tr. Martin Palmer, 1996).

Emerson taught that we do not find meaning, but make it. To read well, he wrote, is to read creatively. Reading creatively requires that we read for context. (Emerson, The American Scholar).

This is the Tao. There is no other.