ONT Re: Inquiry Oriented Systems

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IOS.  Note 3

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3.2.10.  The Pragmatic Cosmos (cont.)

The circumstance that the domain of logic is set within the domain of ethics,
that is further set within the domain of aesthetics, does not keep the outlook
of each dominion from rising to such a height along an independent dimension or
an orthogonal direction that each keeps a watch over all of the domains that it
is set within.  In sum, then, the image is that of three cylinders that stand on
concentric bases, telescopically extending through a succession of heights, with
the narrowest mounting to the highest, and the broadest developing the most basic,
all of them rising to the contemplation of a summit that virtually completes their
perspective, as if wholly sheltered by the envelope of the cone that they jointly
support, no matter what its ultimate case may turn out to be, whether imaginary
or real, rational or transcendental.

Logic has a monitory function with respect to ethics and aesthetics,
while ethics has a monitory function solely with respect to aesthetics.
By way of definition, a "monitory function" is a duty, a role, or a task
that one discipline has to watch over the practice of another discipline,
checking the feasibility of its intentions and its indicated operations,
evaluating the conformity of its performed operations to its intentions,
and, when called for, reforming the faith, the feasance, or the fidelity
of its acts in accord with its aims.  A definite attitude and particular
perspective are prerequisites for an agent to exercise a monitory role
with any hope or measure of success.  The necessary station rises from
the observation that not all things are possible, at least, not at once,
and especially that not all ends are achievable by a fallible creature
within a finite creation.  Accordingly, the agent of a monitory faculty
needs to help the agency that is involved in the endeavor or the effort
it monitors to observe three things:  The due limits of its proper arena,
the higher considerations of its action, and the inherent constraints that
force a fallible and a finite agent to choose among the variety of available
truths, and acts, and aims.

Jon Awbrey

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