Jon A.S. proposes that both inquiry and ingenuity are motivated more fundamentally by dissatisfaction with the current state of affairs.
Agreed. And this could apply to artistic creation as well: the artist looks out at what’s been done in his or her field and thinks “There must be more to it than this!” or perhaps “I can do better than that.” But maybe they are driven to think this way by an irrational urge to create, to do something that hasn’t been done before, or show us something we haven’t seen before … Gary f. From: Jon Alan Schmidt [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 15-May-16 21:30 Gary F., List: Your points are well-taken, especially given my thinking on the "logic of ingenuity" as employed by engineers--where there is a cycle of abduction/deduction/induction (analysis) nested within another (design). And like artistic creation, engineering does not (usually) begin with the observation of a surprising fact. What I have posited is that both inquiry and ingenuity are motivated more fundamentally by dissatisfaction with the current state of affairs--doubt in one case, which is resolved by attaining a state of belief; and uncertainty in the other, which is resolved by attaining a state of decision. Regards, Jon Alan Schmidt - Olathe, Kansas, USA Professional Engineer, Amateur Philosopher, Lutheran Layman www.LinkedIn.com/in/JonAlanSchmidt <http://www.LinkedIn.com/in/JonAlanSchmidt> - twitter.com/JonAlanSchmidt <http://twitter.com/JonAlanSchmidt>
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