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===1.2.  Hodos : Methods, Media, and Middle Courses===

===1.2.  Hodos : Methods, Media, and Middle Courses===

To every thing there is a season.  To every concept there are minimal contexts of sensible application, the most reduced situations in which the concept can be used to make sense.  Every concept is an instrument of thought, and like every method has its bounds of useful application.  In directions of simplicity, a concept is bounded by the minimum levels of complexity out of which it is, initially, recurrently, transiently, ultimately, able to arise.  There is one form of rhetorical question that people often use to address this issue, if somewhat indirectly.  It presents itself initially as a genuine question but precipitates the answer in enthymeme, dashing headlong to break off inquiry in the form of a blank.  Ostensibly, the space extends the question, but it is only a pretext.  The pretense of an open sentence is already filled in by the unexpressed beliefs of the questioner.

To every thing there is a season.  To every concept there are minimal contexts of sensible application, the most reduced situations in which the concept can be used to make sense.  Every concept is an instrument of thought, and like every method has its bounds of useful application.  In directions of simplicity, a concept is bounded by the minimum levels of complexity out of which it is, initially, recurrently, transiently, ultimately, able to arise.  There is one form of rhetorical question that people often use to address this issue, if somewhat indirectly.  It presents itself initially as a genuine question but precipitates the answer in enthymeme, dashing headlong to break off inquiry in the form of a blank.  Ostensibly, the space extends the question, but it is only a pretext.  The pretense of an open sentence is already filled in by the unexpressed beliefs of the questioner.