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| If the faculty of inquiry is a coherent power, then it has an active or instrumental face, a passive or objective face, and a substantial body of connections between them. | | If the faculty of inquiry is a coherent power, then it has an active or instrumental face, a passive or objective face, and a substantial body of connections between them. |
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− | :: '''<code>y = {?}</code>''' | + | :: <math>y = \{ ? \}</math> |
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| In giving the current inquiry a reflexive cast, as inquiry into inquiry, I have brought inquiry face to face with itself, inditing it to apply its action in pursuing a knowledge of its passion. | | In giving the current inquiry a reflexive cast, as inquiry into inquiry, I have brought inquiry face to face with itself, inditing it to apply its action in pursuing a knowledge of its passion. |
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− | :: '''<code>y<sub>0</sub> = y <math>\cdot</math> y = {?}{?}</code>''' | + | :: <math>y_0 = y \cdot y = \{ ? \} \{ ? \}</math> |
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| If this juxtaposition of characters is to have a meaningful issue, then the fullness of its instrumental and objective aspects must have recourse to easier actions and simpler objects. | | If this juxtaposition of characters is to have a meaningful issue, then the fullness of its instrumental and objective aspects must have recourse to easier actions and simpler objects. |
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− | :: '''<code>y >= {?, ?}</code>''' | + | :: <math>y >\!\!= \{ ? , ? \}</math> |
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| Looking for an edge on each face of inquiry, as a plausible option for beginning to apply one to the other, I find what seems a likely pair. I begin with an aspect of instrumental inquiry that is easy to do, namely ''discussion'', along with an aspect of objective inquiry that is unavoidable to discuss, namely ''formalization''. | | Looking for an edge on each face of inquiry, as a plausible option for beginning to apply one to the other, I find what seems a likely pair. I begin with an aspect of instrumental inquiry that is easy to do, namely ''discussion'', along with an aspect of objective inquiry that is unavoidable to discuss, namely ''formalization''. |
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− | :: '''<code>y >= {disc, form}</code>''' | + | :: <math>y >\!\!= \{ \operatorname{discussion} , \operatorname{formalization} \}</math> |
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| In accord with this plan, the body of this section is devoted to a discussion of formalization. | | In accord with this plan, the body of this section is devoted to a discussion of formalization. |
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− | :: '''<code>y<sub>0</sub> = y <math>\cdot</math> y >= {d, f}{d, f} >= {f}{d}</code>''' | + | :: <math>y_0 = y \cdot y >\!\!= \{ d , f \} \{ d , f \} >\!\!= \{ f \} \{ d \}</math> |
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| ====1.3.2. Discussion of Discussion==== | | ====1.3.2. Discussion of Discussion==== |