estion more modestly, as befits the modest condition of
our current understanding -- well, mine, at least -- the question is
better asked in the following form:

(2b)  What signs do we have of what a true theory of inquiry would be like?

Those are the questions.

I have feeling that they will be enough to occupy me for a while.

Now, just let me say one or two things about the various ways that
I presently plan to approach these questions, if not being so bold
and so blunt as to think that they will bring 