Monthly Archives: September 2015

In the Way of Inquiry • Formal Apology

Posted on September 15, 2015 by Jon Awbrey

Using form in the sense of abstract structure, the focus of my interest in this investigation is limited to the formal properties of the inquiry process.  Among its chief constituents are numbered all the thinking and unthinking processes supporting the … Continue reading →

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In the Way of Inquiry • Justification Trap

Posted on September 14, 2015 by Jon Awbrey

There is a particular type of “justification trap” a person can fall into, of trying to prove the scientific method by solely deductive means, that is, of trying to show the scientific method is a good method by starting from … Continue reading →

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In the Way of Inquiry • Initial Unpleasantness

Posted on September 14, 2015 by Jon Awbrey

Clouds and thunder: The image of Difficulty at the Beginning. Thus the superior man Brings order out of confusion. — I Ching ䷂ Hexagram 3 Inquiry begins in doubt, a debit of certainty and a drought of information, never a … Continue reading →

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In the Way of Inquiry • Obstacles

Posted on September 12, 2015 by Jon Awbrey

Upon this first, and in one sense this sole, rule of reason, that in order to learn you must desire to learn, and in so desiring not be satisfied with what you already incline to think, there follows one corollary … Continue reading →

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In the Way of Inquiry • Recircus

Posted on September 12, 2015 by Jon Awbrey

I must lie down where all the ladders start In the foul rag and bone shop of the heart. — W.B. Yeats I have in mind circling back to a point in my project on Inquiry Driven Systems, namely, the chapter … Continue reading →

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Basal Ingredients Of Society • ℞

Posted on September 10, 2015 by Jon Awbrey

THE SOCIAL COMPACT If then we discard from the social compact what is not of its essence, we shall find that it reduces itself to the following terms: “Each of us puts his person and all his power in common … Continue reading →

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Basal Ingredients Of Society • Comment 7

Posted on September 7, 2015 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Diane Ravitch • Help the ACLU Sue the State of Nevada to Stop Vouchers Vouchers are a tool for injecting a viral species of market dynamics — the dynamics of private individuals competing in a zero-sum game for individual … Continue reading →

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Basal Ingredients Of Society • Comment 6

Posted on September 7, 2015 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Diane Ravitch • Help the ACLU Sue the State of Nevada to Stop Vouchers Until very recently, beginning with the perverse promotion of corporate curricula, state and federal governments have never had “the power to require children to receive … Continue reading →

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Basal Ingredients Of Society • Comment 5

Posted on September 6, 2015 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Diane Ravitch • Help the ACLU Sue the State of Nevada to Stop Vouchers Religion is a private business. If religious establishments wish to remain free of accountability to the government of the people as a whole — just … Continue reading →

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Basal Ingredients Of Society • Comment 4

Posted on September 6, 2015 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Diane Ravitch • Why Douglas County, Colorado, Vouchers Were Ruled Unconstitutional Freedom of religion depends on the separation of church and state. That’s what they taught us back in the last millennium, even in Texas, maybe even especially in … Continue reading →

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