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Remarkably, the capacities for criticism and creativity that are needed for reflection spring from a common source, namely, from the sense of possibility that can regard every process as occurring within a context of alternative actions.  An inquiry, to be intelligent and innovative, critical and creative, has to be reflective, with the capacity to regard itself as one inquiry among others.  In this “regard” is implied the ability of an interpretive agent to reference and to evaluate its own progress in inquiry, to observe it more dispassionately in subsequent reflections as the conduct of one inquirer among a host of many others, choosing one way of doing inquiry from the array of others conceivable.  Accordingly, solely out of these reflections is developed the notion of a virtual or a potential community, quite independently of the empirical matter of how any actual or present community is constituted or realized at the moment.

Remarkably, the capacities for criticism and creativity that are needed for reflection spring from a common source, namely, from the sense of possibility that can regard every process as occurring within a context of alternative actions.  An inquiry, to be intelligent and innovative, critical and creative, has to be reflective, with the capacity to regard itself as one inquiry among others.  In this “regard” is implied the ability of an interpretive agent to reference and to evaluate its own progress in inquiry, to observe it more dispassionately in subsequent reflections as the conduct of one inquirer among a host of many others, choosing one way of doing inquiry from the array of others conceivable.  Accordingly, solely out of these reflections is developed the notion of a virtual or a potential community, quite independently of the empirical matter of how any actual or present community is constituted or realized at the moment.

'''Point 17.''' &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Recalling the proposed application <math>{}^{\backprime\backprime}y \cdot y{}^{\prime\prime}\!</math> once again, it needs to be pointed out that an action cannot really act on an action, but only on its signs.

Point 17. Recalling the proposed application "y.y" once again, it needs to be pointed out that an action cannot really act on an action, but only on its signs.

In technical terms, an action can only act on certain signs that exist in association with another or the same action, signs that are often called the "images" of the action to be affected.

In technical terms, an action can act only on certain signs that exist in association with another or the same action, signs that are often called the &ldquo;images&rdquo; of the action to be affected.

Point 18. The images, depictions, or descriptions of conduct generated by reflection, as records of experience, can be accumulated into theories and compiled into models of the corresponding conduct.

Point 18. The images, depictions, or descriptions of conduct generated by reflection, as records of experience, can be accumulated into theories and compiled into models of the corresponding conduct.