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Index || Chapter 1

Some questions about Inverse Insight

Here are a few questions to raise with regard to the nature of inverse insight.

1. It apprehends that a question is mistaken.  Since all insights are answers to questions, what is the question that leads to an inverse insight?  How and why does this question arise?  Is it the answer to the question that is seeking an intelligibility and discovers none?

2. What is the relation of the inverse insight to the question for reflection, reflective insight and judgment? How is it verified? (One can think here how Lonergan verifies that difference in particular places and times are not intelligible.

3. What kind of definition articulates this insight?  At this early stage in insight, Lonergan has mentioned three--nominal, explanatory, and implicit.

 

 

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