Scientific practice, both in the broad sense and in the specific case of
computer science, cannot demonstrate how the constituted logic of a given consistent
system translates into an empirically constructed system without the assumption of
other conditions which may also be logically constituted through modes of praxis that
are already technically available. Computer science is premised on a technically laden
life-world and, indeed, on an interpretation of the entire environment as accessible to
technical management. In this sense, there is a pre-understanding that allows a given
population to regard both science and computer science as “value free”. Yet, it is
precisely the technologically interpreted environment that is imbedded in valuations. In
this chapter, we explicate: (a) the principles that establish scientific objectivity on the
basis of the objectivity of logics; (b) how those logics are connected to the resources of
the environment; (c) how the environment itself is technical and valuative; and (d) how
a particular modern value context pervades the technical, logical, and scientific
enterprises.
Keywords: Information, Life-world, Learning, Machine Logic, Network, Perception, Space, Time, Understanding
