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If one considers the formula that characterizes an inquiry into inquiry, <math>y_0 = y \cdot y,</math> and examines the term <math>y \cdot y</math> that factors <math>y_0\!</math> along the lines of an ostensible self-application, it is evident that any power invoked on the right is instantly echoed on the left and so required to survive the application or else be revoked.  If the use of a given power of inquiry, working from the right and serving in the role of an operator, leads to a prospective description of inquiry, worked on the left from the role of an operand to the role of a result, and if the proffered characterization of inquiry is found to be out of accord with significant instances of its actual practice, then either the depiction of inquiry, as it is mediately improvised in progress, or the performance of inquiry, as it is actually conducted in practice, can turn out to be at fault.

If one considers the formula that characterizes an inquiry into inquiry, <math>y_0 = y \cdot y,</math> and examines the term <math>y \cdot y</math> that factors <math>y_0\!</math> along the lines of an ostensible self-application, it is evident that any power invoked on the right is instantly echoed on the left and so required to survive the application or else be revoked.  If the use of a given power of inquiry, working from the right and serving in the role of an operator, leads to a prospective description of inquiry, worked on the left from the role of an operand to the role of a result, and if the proffered characterization of inquiry is found to be out of accord with significant instances of its actual practice, then either the depiction of inquiry, as it is mediately improvised in progress, or the performance of inquiry, as it is actually conducted in practice, can turn out to be at fault.

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This is because even the dimmest of them cannot help but sense that something is very wrong with this style of living.

Daniel Quinn, Ishmael, [DQ, 11]

<p>This is because even the dimmest of them cannot help but sense that something is very wrong with this style of living.</p>

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The philosophical point of view called "pragmatism" takes a particular position on the relation of thoughts to signs, and this determines a particular method of approach to the nature of thinking.  To preview here what is presented in detail later, the pragmatic point of view involves:  (1) an assertion that thoughts are a special case of signs, (2) a theoretical definition of signs in terms of sign relations, and (3) a corresponding approach to the nature of thought as "praxis", in other words, of thinking as a process, or inquiry as a form of conduct.

The philosophical point of view called &ldquo;pragmatism&rdquo; takes a particular position on the relation of thoughts to signs, and this determines a particular method of approach to the nature of thinking.  To preview here what is presented in detail later, the pragmatic point of view involves:  (1) an assertion that thoughts are a special case of signs, (2) a theoretical definition of signs in terms of sign relations, and (3) a corresponding approach to the nature of thought as &ldquo;praxis&rdquo;, in other words, of thinking as a process, or inquiry as a form of conduct.

When I say that they are more thoughtful, I don't mean to imply that they acquire powers of ratiocination.

When I say that they are more thoughtful, I don't mean to imply that they acquire powers of ratiocination.

Daniel Quinn, Ishmael, [DQ, 11]

Daniel Quinn, Ishmael, [DQ, 11]