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If inquiry is viewed as a process of reasoning, then it takes place in thought, and so in the signs that are the public expression of thought.  This means that an inquiry into inquiry has the duty to concern itself with thoughts, signs, and the relationship between them.  To do this in an appropriate setting, it has to consider thoughts and signs as things taken apart from, but placed in relation to, their own particular objects.  Indeed, the task that distinguishes an inquiry into inquiry, the specific difference that sets it apart, both from all of its object inquiries and again from inquiry in general, is the question of how thought is to be conducted if the goals of inquiry are to be met.

If inquiry is viewed as a process of reasoning, then it takes place in thought, and so in the signs that are the public expression of thought.  This means that an inquiry into inquiry has the duty to concern itself with thoughts, signs, and the relationship between them.  To do this in an appropriate setting, it has to consider thoughts and signs as things taken apart from, but placed in relation to, their own particular objects.  Indeed, the task that distinguishes an inquiry into inquiry, the specific difference that sets it apart, both from all of its object inquiries and again from inquiry in general, is the question of how thought is to be conducted if the goals of inquiry are to be met.

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In such places (he went on at last), where animals are simply penned up, they are almost always more thoughtful than their cousins in the wild.

Daniel Quinn, Ishmael, [DQ, 11]

<p>In such places (he went on at last), where animals are simply penned up, they are almost always more thoughtful than their cousins in the wild.</p>

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If one considers the formula that characterizes an inquiry into inquiry, "y0 = y.y", and examines the term y.y that factors y0 along the lines of an ostensible self application, it is evident that any power invoked on the right is instantly echoed on the left and so required to survive the application or else be revoked.  If the use of a given power of inquiry, working from the right and serving in the role of an operator, leads to a prospective description of inquiry, worked on the left from the role of an operand to the role of a result, and if the proferred characterization of inquiry is found to be out of accord with significant instances of its actual practice, then either the depiction of inquiry, as it is mediately improvised in progress, or the performance of inquiry, as it is actually conducted in practice, can turn out to be at fault.

If one considers the formula that characterizes an inquiry into inquiry, <math>y_0 = y \cdot y,</math> and examines the term <math>y \cdot y</math> that factors <math>y_0\!</math> along the lines of an ostensible self-application, it is evident that any power invoked on the right is instantly echoed on the left and so required to survive the application or else be revoked.  If the use of a given power of inquiry, working from the right and serving in the role of an operator, leads to a prospective description of inquiry, worked on the left from the role of an operand to the role of a result, and if the proffered characterization of inquiry is found to be out of accord with significant instances of its actual practice, then either the depiction of inquiry, as it is mediately improvised in progress, or the performance of inquiry, as it is actually conducted in practice, can turn out to be at fault.

This is because even the dimmest of them cannot help but sense that something is very wrong with this style of living.

This is because even the dimmest of them cannot help but sense that something is very wrong with this style of living.

Daniel Quinn, Ishmael, [DQ, 11]

Daniel Quinn, Ishmael, [DQ, 11]

Daniel Quinn, Ishmael, [DQ, 11]

Daniel Quinn, Ishmael, [DQ, 11]

The way that reflection turns action into depiction and description, how it gives a sign to the act and provides a code for its future conduct, is the chief mystery of the whole process of reflection.  Expressed in the substantive fashion that the " ionized" character of "reflection" permits, this riddle arises from wondering how a reflection on the action can be transubstantiated as a sign of the action and resurrect itself in a code of the conduct.  In other words, how does a signification calling for an interpretation arise from the very interruption of its full transmission, the comical section of its secular extension, the transient abdication of its permanent tradition, ..., or the discrete truncation of a continuous conduction?

The way that reflection turns action into depiction and description, how it gives a sign to the act and provides a code for its /future conduct, is the chief mystery of the whole process of reflection.  Expressed in the substantive fashion that the " ionized" character of "reflection" permits, this riddle arises from wondering how a reflection on the action can be transubstantiated as a sign of the action and resurrect itself in a code of the conduct.  In other words, how does a signification calling for an interpretation arise from the very interruption of its full transmission, the comical section of its secular extension, the transient abdication of its permanent tradition, ..., or the discrete truncation of a continuous conduction?

But the tiger you see madly pacing its cage is nevertheless preoccupied with something that a human would certainly recognize as a thought.

But the tiger you see madly pacing its cage is nevertheless preoccupied with something that a human would certainly recognize as a thought.