I couldn’t get the words ‘conditional and contextual’ in the below sentence. Please explain them.
How can we make decisions in the face of scientific uncertainty? The answer is that our plans generally have to be conditional and contextual.

Is that any words instead of them?

Question

I couldn’t get the words ‘conditional and contextual’ in the below sentence. Please explain them.
How can we make decisions in the face of scientific uncertainty? The answer is that our plans generally have to be conditional and contextual.

Is that any words instead of them?

Answer

Conditional means depending on something else, as in "it depends". It might be one way or it might be another, you have to be flexible to be ready for either way.
Contextual means relating to the broader environment.
 
So "our plans generally have to be conditional and contextual" could be instead "our plans generally have to be adaptable (or flexible), taking the circumstances into consideration."

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