In the Way of Inquiry • Material Exigency 1
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https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2023/01/20/in-the-way-of-inquiry-material-ex…
Our survey of obstacles to inquiry has dealt at length with
blocks arising from its formal aspects. On the other hand,
I have cast this project as an empirical inquiry, proposing
to represent experimental hypotheses in the form of computer
programs. At the heart of that empirical attitude is a feeling
all formal theories should arise from and bear on experience.
Every season of growth in empirical knowledge begins with
a rush to the sources of experience. Every fresh‑thinking
reed of intellect is raised to pipe up and chime in with the
still‑viable canons of inquiry in one glorious paean to the
personal encounter with natural experience.
But real progress in the community of inquiry depends on observers
being able to orient themselves to objects of common experience —
the uncontrolled exaltation of individual phenomenologies leads
as a rule to the disappointment and disillusionment which befalls
the lot of unshared enthusiasms and fragmented impressions.
Look again at the end of the season and see it faltering to a close,
with every novice scribe rapped on the knuckles for departing from
that uninspired identification with impersonal authority which
expresses itself in third‑person passive accounts of one's own
experience.
Overview
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https://oeis.org/wiki/Inquiry_Driven_Systems_%E2%80%A2_Overview
Obstacles
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https://oeis.org/wiki/Inquiry_Driven_Systems_%E2%80%A2_Part_5#Obstacles
Regards,
Jon
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