The idea of disclosure supposes that the meaning of a word or thing depends upon the context in which we encounter it, including the way of life of which it is a part.
Reflective disclosure is thus a way of acting back upon conditions of intelligibility, in order to clarify or reshape our background understanding.
[8] According to Kompridis, these arguments have distinctive forms, sometimes called styles of reasoning,[9] that start with a disclosive approach instead of, or in addition to methods that are deductive, inductive, etc.
[10][11] According to Kompridis and Taylor, these forms of argument attempt to reveal features of a wider ontological or cultural-linguistic understanding (or "world," in a specifically ontological sense), in order to clarify or transform the background of meaning and "logical space" on which an argument implicitly depends.
"[15] The "claim" made by such an argument is that of a new insight, resulting from the adoption of a new stance or perspective that reveals, or discloses a new possibility for thinking and acting.
The second refers to the consciousness of "the degree to which our interpretations, valuations, our practices, and traditions are temporally indexed" and subject to historical change.