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====1.3.5. Discussion of Formalization : Specific Objects====
 
 
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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.
 
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