Early requirements of information systems are often understood in terms of the elicitation of stakeholders’ high-level goals to be supported by the system under discussion. Stakeholders’ goals are considered as the ultimate explanation of requirements. It is assumed that the notion of a highlevel goal is natural and that high-level goals need no explanation with regard to their origins. We beli...

Abstract It is generally assumed that hinge-commitments are deprived of an epistemically normative structure, and yet, although groundless, the acceptance Wittgensteinian certainties still rational. The problem comes from intellectualist view hinge-approvals which many recent proposals advance—one falls short necessities impossibilities pertaining to what would be right description how it like ...