Critics and artists (including performing artists) claim the title of interpreter for themselves. scientists do not so readily describes themselves in this way. But is the formulation of explanatory hypotheses in science so different from the interpretive work of artists? This volume recognises that whenever interpretation occurs there may be a plurality of competing successful interpretations. It offers a philosophical theory that views the interpretive enterprise as an attempts to make sense of things by representing them in ways that can be accommodated within various significance-systems.