Start with double bind. No two words so joined are more important, thanks
to Gregory Bateson. :) PS. But I see your point.

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On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 4:42 PM, Jon Awbrey <[email protected]> wrote:

> JA:http://web.archive.org/web/20140630220000/http://
> permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/13446
> SR:http://web.archive.org/web/20140701002000/http://
> permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/13447
> JA:http://web.archive.org/web/20140701003000/http://
> permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/13448
> SR:http://web.archive.org/web/20140701024001/http://
> permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/13449
> PC:http://web.archive.org/web/20140701031800/http://
> permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/13450
>
> Phyllis Chiasson wrote:
> >
> > I have always thought Peirce considered "surprise" as the beginning of
> doubt,
> > and doubt the thing that must be settled to have enough belief to act.
> > 1st, 2nd, 3rd.
>
> Stephen, Phyllis, List,
>
> I do not think Peirce is being dogmatic so much as simply making a
> definition.  He wraps a boundary about a class of processes that he finds
> worthy of interest for all sorts of reasons and he affixes the word
> "inquiry" to that class.  He knows the name is not always so apt but what's
> in a name is the object class and not the name for its own sake.
>
> | The irritation of doubt causes a struggle to attain a state of belief.
> | I shall term this struggle ''inquiry'', though it must be admitted
> | that this is sometimes not a very apt designation.
> |
> | http://www.peirce.org/writings/p107.html
>
> If we peer through the cloud of words surrounding the class of phenomena
> thus labeled, we find many features in common.  There is a tension among
> two or more alternatives.  Hence the words ambiguity, doubt, double take,
> dubiety, duplicity, equivocality, perplexity, and so on.  The alternatives
> may come in different flavors, intensities, or modes, and they may arise
> from different sources.  Hence the words anomaly, novelty, and surprise
> that reflect a tension between what we expect or what is familiar and what
> we observe in actuality.  All these words point in their own nuanced ways
> to roughly the same sort of affective-cognitive situation.
>
> Once the general idea of inquiry is settled enough to inquire further,
> there are any number of questions we might ask next.
>
> I have a few in mind ...
>
> Jon
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