ABSTRACT

The key overall lesson of these deliberations is that inquiry is a dynamical and ultimately incompletable process so that the agenda of questions and the inventory of our answers to them are not something stable but rather manifest an ever-continuing flux. The project of re­ solving our questions, in science as elsewhere, is developmental and open-ended as new issues arise and old ones drop from sight. Experi­ ence teaches that natural science is by its very nature self-destabilizing and for this very reason cannot be cognitively tethered, limited, com­ pleted-or indeed predicted.