在当代科学和哲学的共有背景即广义自然主义框架下，我们可以尝试对规范性问题及其基础性地位给出一种宽泛而统一的说明。具体切入的角度是方法论层面的两大表征手段（即解释和诠释）之间的关系。这种关系可以在它们与其他概念对子（诸如实证归纳 vs 先验原则、因果 vs 理由、个项 vs 类型、描述 vs 规范、世界祛魅 vs 复魅）的关联中得到揭示。解释指向某种单向的认知关系，而诠释则牵涉到双向的构成。当我们理解或解释自然现象时必然会牵涉到一种规范性，而诠释者与诠释对象之间的某种互依或互动的影响，实际上离不开诠释者本人作为知觉者的第一人称视角。

Within a broad naturalistic framework as a common background for the contemporary science and philosophy, we try to give a generic and unified account for normativity as well as its foundational status by taking a particular angle of the relation between two major representational means, i.e., explanation and interpretation, at the level of methodology. This relation can be revealed via their connections with other conceptual pairs (such as posteriori induction vs apriori principle, cause vs reason, token vs type, description vs norm, disenchantment vs re-enchantment of the world). Explanation draws on one-directional cognition while interpretation involves two-directional construction. When we understand or explain natural phenomena, certain kinds of normativity are involved; whereas the kinds of interdependence or interaction between interpreters and interpretational objects all rely on the first-person perspective of the perceivers doing the interpretation.