lines image in compact form the crux of the problem,
the crucible of the method, and the character that marks
relation between the two, if indeed they really are two,
in a form whose extended development will wind its way
through many a later page of the present exposition.

But let me just point out at this point some of
the reasons why I have found the prerequisite
of an inquiry into inquiry to be inescapable.

Let us entertain the idea, for the sake of getting the inquiry started
if nothing else, that it