In this view, one narrative is as good as another, since each is expressed in the language of its particular culture and thus contains all the assumptions about truth and reality embedded in that culture.
Texts have no intrinsic meaning.
Rather, their meanings are created by the reader. Today's college students, in the United States and elsewhere, hear this line of reasoning from many of their social science and humanities professors. Certainly, science relies on thought processes and does not always follow a clear, logical path to the conclusions it makes about reality. True, it never proves the correctness of these conclusions. Science knows nothing for certain about the world and must always couch its results in terms of probabilities or likelihoods.