Will and Questioning

The process of Questioning has more in common with Descartes' procedure than does the common notion of doubting, i. e. it is intellectually methodical, as opposed to a vague feeling of unease. Questioning also exhibits some of the characteristics of Will, as conceived here. First, it spontaneously diverges from some given. Second, it is not necessarily a teleological process, i. e. while in many cases it eventuates in an answer, in others it does not, and need not. Third, on the other hand, it more immediately admits of formal causality, i. e. insofar as some interrogative pattern provides it with a definite structure. Finally, it often activates further processes, e. g. inquiry. As such, Questioning has more in common with Lucretian Swerve than with Heideggerian Ontological Call.