Category Archives: Inquiry Into Inquiry

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 →

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

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 →

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 →

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 →