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If one reads the form <math>y \cdot y</math> according to the convention adopted, where a latently but actively instrumentalized inquiry on the right applies to a patently but patiently objectified inquiry on the left, almost as if they were two distinct agencies, faculties, or processes, then it is clear that an inquiry into inquiry can begin with little more than a nominal object, taking the name of “inquiry” in its sights to yield a clue in name only, while it can reserve all the power of an established capacity for inquiry to conduct its review, of which no account, no prescribed code, nor any catalog of procedure has to be given at the outset of its investigation.
If one reads the form <math>y \cdot y</math> according to the convention adopted, where a latently but actively instrumentalized inquiry on the right applies to a patently but patiently objectified inquiry on the left, almost as if they were two distinct agencies, faculties, or processes, then it is clear that an inquiry into inquiry can begin with little more than a nominal object, taking the name of “inquiry” in its sights to yield a clue in name only, while it can reserve all the power of an established capacity for inquiry to conduct its review, of which no account, no prescribed code, nor any catalog of procedure has to be given at the outset of its investigation.
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If you were somehow able to ask the creature, "Why what?" it would be unable to answer you.
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<p>If you were somehow able to ask the creature, “Why what?” it would be unable to answer you.</p>
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But it is important to remember that the full intention of this factious formulation is more analogous to an interpretive doubling of vision, an amplification of resolving power and a coordination of perspectives, than it is to an objective division of being, a substantial disconnection of essentials or a disintegration of being. Even when the factions of the term "y.y" are conceived in practice to be implemented by substantially different parts of the same agency, constitutionally they embody but a single power.
But it is important to remember that the full intention of this factious formulation is more analogous to an interpretive doubling of vision, an amplification of resolving power and a coordination of perspectives, than it is to an objective division of being, a substantial disconnection of essentials or a disintegration of being. Even when the factions of the term <math>y \cdot y</math> are conceived in practice to be implemented by substantially different parts of the same agency, constitutionally they embody but a single power.
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Before long I too began to ask myself why.
Before long I too began to ask myself why.
Daniel Quinn, Ishmael, [DQ, 11]
Daniel Quinn, Ishmael, [DQ, 11]