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| colspan="2" | I dream'd I lay where flowers were springing
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| width="5%" | || Gaily in the sunny beam,
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| colspan="2" | List'ning to the wild birds singing,
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| width="5%" | || By a falling crystal stream;
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| colspan="2" | Straight the sky grew black and daring,
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| width="5%" | || Thro the woods the whirlwinds rave,
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| colspan="2" | Trees with aged arms were warring
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| width="5%" | || O'er the swelling, drumlie wave.
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| colspan="2" align="right" | — Robert Burns, ''I Dream'd I Lay'', [CPW, 45]
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To paraphrase, the present inquiry acts on the pretense that an inquiry can inquire into other inquiries, perhaps even those that are presently ongoing, and even inquire into itself, in sum, being entitled to inquire into the full genus of inquiry, Y, a class that includes y0 as a member. But these representations, under cross examination, lead to a number of unanswered questions, like: Just what is a "generic inquiry", anyway? Even more critically, their close and repeated examination leads to a host of "unquestioned answers", answers already accepted as adequate, but whose appearances as answers need to be questioned again.
To paraphrase, the present inquiry acts on the pretense that an inquiry can inquire into other inquiries, perhaps even those that are presently ongoing, and even inquire into itself, in sum, being entitled to inquire into the full genus of inquiry, Y, a class that includes y0 as a member. But these representations, under cross examination, lead to a number of unanswered questions, like: Just what is a "generic inquiry", anyway? Even more critically, their close and repeated examination leads to a host of "unquestioned answers", answers already accepted as adequate, but whose appearances as answers need to be questioned again.