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These effect of reflection, when it is efficient, is to do just this, to produce a single image that captures a poignant, salient, or relevant aspect of an entire dramatic sequence.

These effect of reflection, when it is efficient, is to do just this, to produce a single image that captures a poignant, salient, or relevant aspect of an entire dramatic sequence.

'''Point 8.'''     Inquiry, if deliberate and critical, involves reflection.

Point 8. Inquiry, if deliberate and critical, involves reflection.

The capacity for reflection is necessary to carry out the deliberately conducted and critically controlled varieties of inquiry that make up the principal interest of this work, and especially to entertain any form of inquiry into inquiry.

The capacity for reflection is necessary to carry out the deliberately conducted and critically controlled varieties of inquiry that make up the principal interest of this work, and especially to entertain any form of inquiry into inquiry.

The pragmatic theory of signs sets the stage for a broad definition of inquiry.  It includes under "inquiry" all the fortuitous and instinctive processes that agents exploit to escape from states of uncertainty, to soothe the "irritation of doubt", in Peirce's phrase, along with all the deliberate and intelligent procedures that enable communities of agents to deal in systematic ways with the surprises and the problems that they encounter in their several and common experiences.  At one end of this spectrum, the more incidental, instinctive, and casually intuitive forms of inquiry can be carried on without the interruptions of critical reflection.  But an intelligent inquiry is necessarily a reflective inquiry.

The pragmatic theory of signs sets the stage for a broad definition of inquiry.  It includes under “inquiry” all the fortuitous and instinctive processes that agents exploit to escape from states of uncertainty, to soothe the “irritation of doubt”, in Peirce's phrase, along with all the deliberate and intelligent procedures that enable communities of agents to deal in systematic ways with the surprises and the problems that they encounter in their several and common experiences.  At one end of this spectrum, the more incidental, instinctive, and casually intuitive forms of inquiry can be carried on without the interruptions of critical reflection.  But an intelligent inquiry is necessarily a reflective inquiry.

Point 9. The need for a capacity of reflection is the reflection of a certain incapacity to see certain things without it.

Point 9. The need for a capacity of reflection is the reflection of a certain incapacity to see certain things without it.