The understanding pertaining to taking into account material conditions only as part of the historical setting is limited. As it overlooks the other components like the understanding of epistemes (the underlying historical structures or frameworks) that constitute the historical conditions of possibility within which certain discourses emerge; these discourses, in turn, produce what is accepted as knowledge in a given historical period. Thus, historical setting not only includes that material conditions but also how people understand their time and space—their mentalities, moral standards—which together make the prevailing thoughts and thinking patterns in a given historical period.