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I recognize inquiry as beginning with a "surprising phenomenon" or | I recognize inquiry as beginning with a "surprising phenomenon" or | ||
a "problematic situation", more briefly described as a "surprise" | a "problematic situation", more briefly described as a "surprise" |
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1.3.5. Discussion of Formalization : Specific Objects
I recognize inquiry as beginning with a "surprising phenomenon" or a "problematic situation", more briefly described as a "surprise" or a "problem", respectively. These are the types of moments that try our souls, the instances of events that instigate inquiry as an effort to achieve their own resolution. Surprises and problems are experienced as afflicted with an irritating uncertainty or a compelling difficulty, one that calls for a response on the part of the agent in question: 1. A "surprise" calls for an explanation to resolve the uncertainty that is present in it. This uncertainty is associated with a difference between observations and expectations. 2. A "problem" calls for a plan of action to resolve the difficulty that is present in it. This difficulty is associated with a difference between observations and intentions. To express this diversity in a unified formula: Both types of inquiry begin with a "delta", a compact term that admits of expansion as a debt, a difference, a difficulty, a discrepancy, a dispersion, a distribution, a doubt, a duplicity, or a duty. Expressed another way, inquiry begins with a doubt about one's object, whether this means what is true of a case, an object, or a world, what to do about reaching a goal, or whether the hoped-for goal is really good for oneself -- with all that these questions lead to in essence, in deed, or in fact. Perhaps there is an inexhaustible reality that issues in these apparent mysteries and recurrent crises, but, by the time I say this much, I am already indulging in a finite image, a hypothesis about what is going on. If nothing else, then, one finds again the familiar pattern, where the formative relation between the informal and the formal merely serves to remind one anew of the relationship between the infinite and the finite.