A helpful hermeneutical tip from Michael Polanyi

"... we must recognize belief as the source of all knowledge. Tacit assent and intellectual passions, the shaping of an idiom and of a cultural heritage, affiliation to a likeminded community: such are the impulses which shape our vision of the nature of things on which we rely for our mastery of things. No intelligence, however critical or original, can operate outside such a fiduciary framework. . . . The process of examining any topic is both an exploration of the topic, and an exegesis of our fundamental beliefs in the light of which we approach it; a dialectical combination of exploration and exegesis. Our fundamental beliefs are continually reconsidered in the course of such a process, but only within the scope of their own basic premises."

- Michael Polanyi, Personal Knowledge, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1958, pp. 266-267.