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This motion, the kind of movement just put in question or the form of development just wondered about, occurs throughout the whole field of inquiry, making it convenient to find a name for it.  Because it steps across a boundary in a state space while keeping its eye on both sides of the displayed distinction, it can be called a ''circumspect transition'' or, more dramatically, a ''peripeteic strophe''.  At times it appears in lights that earn it the titles of the ''yoke of knowing existence'' (YOKE), the ''conduct of subjectivity'' (COS), or just the ''junctive element'' (JE).  It is pertinent in this connection that I am treating the condition of subjectivity as a special case of pragmatic objectivity, as it appears in this instance, one that involves an element of reflection.

This motion, the kind of movement just put in question or the form of development just wondered about, occurs throughout the whole field of inquiry, making it convenient to find a name for it.  Because it steps across a boundary in a state space while keeping its eye on both sides of the displayed distinction, it can be called a ''circumspect transition'' or, more dramatically, a ''peripeteic strophe''.  At times it appears in lights that earn it the titles of the ''yoke of knowing existence'' (YOKE), the ''conduct of subjectivity'' (COS), or just the ''junctive element'' (JE).  It is pertinent in this connection that I am treating the condition of subjectivity as a special case of pragmatic objectivity, as it appears in this instance, one that involves an element of reflection.

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Thus, in asking why, I was trying to puzzle out why life should be divided in this way, half of it interesting and pleasant and half of it boring and unpleasant.

Daniel Quinn, Ishmael, [DQ, 12]

<p>Thus, in asking ''why'', I was trying to puzzle out why life should be divided in this way, half of it interesting and pleasant and half of it boring and unpleasant.</p>

| align="right" | Daniel Quinn, ''Ishmael'', [DQ, 12]

So let me dispense for the moment, even if this dispensation has to be carried out for now in the flippant manner and the fugal mannerisms of the foregoing counterpoint of discussion, with what I earnestly desire, all in good time and by means of well tempered arguments, to dispense with once and for all:  The notion that individual words, sentences, paragraphs, articles, and so on up the scale can be anything like the final arbiters of thought and anything approaching the units of thought of ultimate interest to inquiry.  But I want to do this without giving up the spirit of analysis altogether, merely by looking for forms of analysis that are fit to address the "text of inquiry" (TOI) in its full integrity.

So let me dispense for the moment, even if this dispensation has to be carried out for now in the flippant manner and the fugal mannerisms of the foregoing counterpoint of discussion, with what I earnestly desire, all in good time and by means of well tempered arguments, to dispense with once and for all:  The notion that individual words, sentences, paragraphs, articles, and so on up the scale can be anything like the final arbiters of thought and anything approaching the units of thought of ultimate interest to inquiry.  But I want to do this without giving up the spirit of analysis altogether, merely by looking for forms of analysis that are fit to address the ''text of inquiry'' (TOI) in its full integrity.

It was in puzzling out such small matters as these that my interior life began — quite unnoticed.

It was in puzzling out such small matters as these that my interior life began — quite unnoticed.

Daniel Quinn, Ishmael, [DQ, 12]

Daniel Quinn, Ishmael, [DQ, 12]