I agree entirely that truth (usually) is dependent on context
for most of our interactions with the world. One can think
of truth as a property. It is typically the case that this
property can be reduced to things other than the property
itself (reductionism may well be adequate usually for truth).
But what about properties other than truth?
Pproperties that may be stronger than truth...
Properties that can not be reduced to things (context) other than itself....
Some candidate properties might be "sentience" or "being alive".
It seems to me that there are the following possibilities...
{here I go listing possibilities again [:-) }
1) that "sentience" and "being alive" are actually reducible to context
(reductionism holds for these properties).
2) "sentience" and "being alive" may or may not be reducible to
context but it doesn't really matter because there is no practical
utility (nothing you can do with it)... that is...we can only talk
about it (maybe also write some books about it)... the only
utility is in trying to convince others that there is utility...
for a pragmatist who wants real results it is worthless.
3) that "sentience" and "being alive" are not reducible to context
and in understanding this fact, we are at the threshold of a
whole new expanded science...there is lots of stuff we can do
with it...we just haven't thought of anything yet.
4) I have completely missed your point (or brought up completely
different issues that were not applicable to your point).
Jeff Prideaux
PS. (I'll comment on your language translation post soon)