[CG] Re: In the Way of Inquiry

Cf: In the Way of Inquiry • Reconciling Accounts https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2023/01/24/in-the-way-of-inquiry-reconciling… All, The Reader may share with the Author a feeling of discontent at this point, attempting to reconcile the formal intentions of this inquiry with the cardinal contentions of experience. Let me try to express the difficulty in the form of a question: What is the bond between form and content in experience, between the abstract formal categories and the concrete material contents residing in experience? Once toward the end of my undergrad years a professor asked me how I'd personally define mathematics and I told him I saw it as “the form of experience and the experience of form”. This is not the place to argue for the virtues of that formulation but it does afford me one of the handles I have on the bond between form and content in experience. I have no more than a tentative way of approaching the question. I take there to be a primitive category of “form‑in‑experience” — I don't have a handy name for it yet but it looks to have a flexible nature which from the standpoint of a given agent easily passes from the “structure of experience” to the “experience of structure”. Regards, Jon https://mathstodon.xyz/@Inquiry