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| − | I recognize inquiry as beginning with a "surprising phenomenon" or
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| − | try our souls, the instances of events that instigate inquiry as
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| − | an effort to achieve their own resolution. Surprises and problems
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| − | are experienced as afflicted with an irritating uncertainty or a
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| − | compelling difficulty, one that calls for a response on the part
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| − | 1. A "surprise" calls for an explanation to resolve the
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| − | 2. A "problem" calls for a plan of action to resolve the
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| − | To express this diversity in a unified formula: Both types of inquiry
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| − | begin with a "delta", a compact term that admits of expansion as a debt,
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| − | a difference, a difficulty, a discrepancy, a dispersion, a distribution,
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| − | a doubt, a duplicity, or a duty.
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| − | Expressed another way, inquiry begins with a doubt about one's object,
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| − | whether this means what is true of a case, an object, or a world, what
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| − | to do about reaching a goal, or whether the hoped-for goal is really
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| − | good for oneself -- with all that these questions lead to in essence,
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| − | Perhaps there is an inexhaustible reality that issues in these
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| − | about what is going on. If nothing else, then, one finds again the
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