You have posed an excellent question related to the lack of intellectual humility in certain circles. From a postmodern perspective, I would argue that embracing ambivalence and aporias is the very fabric of knowledge. When we realize our inherent epistemological limitations, we have reached a certain level of erudition. What does everyone else think?
Keith Moser Professor, Thanks you for great contribution. You have added deep words to this answer. Why any theory does not answer every question is an area of thinking and concern. Thanks!!
Assumptions are always necessary in our knowledge. There are simply limits to what we can know. The problem becomes when assumptions themselves limit our knowledge by forbidding the questioning of them. There are, or at least seem to be, absolute ,limits to our knowledge, but we are nowhere near those absolute limits.
Any theory employs knowledge that there is or is based on knowledge of what is possible. A Classic example is Einstein's theories which were mathematically/theoretically worked out and then later proved by somebody else. So a theory can be based on a current paradigm as also that which is perceived as possible in the future. While theory and theorisation may draw the limits of current knowledge it can often imagine the potential to knowledges of the future as well