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Presented in the guise of an allegorical figure, reflection appears as the bailiff or the sergeant at arms who escorts an agent, faculty, or process from the office of power to the dockets of observation, examination, and potential revision.  But still, putting all allegory aside, this mode of transport goes nowhere at all, nor travels through any space, but turns on a mere change of views for all that it ushers in.  One is perfectly capable of using a power of inquiry of which no account is yet given.  But reflection is a part of the inquiry into conduct that gives the conduct in question a description.

Presented in the guise of an allegorical figure, reflection appears as the bailiff or the sergeant at arms who escorts an agent, faculty, or process from the office of power to the dockets of observation, examination, and potential revision.  But still, putting all allegory aside, this mode of transport goes nowhere at all, nor travels through any space, but turns on a mere change of views for all that it ushers in.  One is perfectly capable of using a power of inquiry of which no account is yet given.  But reflection is a part of the inquiry into conduct that gives the conduct in question a description.

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He paused and nibbled absentmindedly on his branch for a while, as if gathering his thoughts.

Daniel Quinn, Ishmael, [DQ, 11]

<p>He paused and nibbled absentmindedly on his branch for a while, as if gathering his thoughts.</p>

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If inquiry is viewed as a process of reasoning, then it takes place in thought, and so in the signs that are the public expression of thought.  This means that an inquiry into inquiry has the duty to concern itself with thoughts, signs, and the relationship between them.  To do this in an appropriate setting, it has to consider thoughts and signs as things taken apart from, but placed in relation to, their own particular objects.  Indeed, the task that distinguishes an inquiry into inquiry, the specific difference that sets it apart, both from all of its object inquiries and again from inquiry in general, is the question of how thought is to be conducted if the goals of inquiry are to be met.

If inquiry is viewed as a process of reasoning, then it takes place in thought, and so in the signs that are the public expression of thought.  This means that an inquiry into inquiry has the duty to concern itself with thoughts, signs, and the relationship between them.  To do this in an appropriate setting, it has to consider thoughts and signs as things taken apart from, but placed in relation to, their own particular objects.  Indeed, the task that distinguishes an inquiry into inquiry, the specific difference that sets it apart, both from all of its object inquiries and again from inquiry in general, is the question of how thought is to be conducted if the goals of inquiry are to be met.

In such places (he went on at last), where animals are simply penned up, they are almost always more thoughtful than their cousins in the wild.

In such places (he went on at last), where animals are simply penned up, they are almost always more thoughtful than their cousins in the wild.

Daniel Quinn, Ishmael, [DQ, 11]

Daniel Quinn, Ishmael, [DQ, 11]