Lonergan's Meaning of Complete in the Fifth Canon of Scientific Method

Abstract

I follow the editor’s suggestion in dividing this essay into sections dealing with a) content, b) context, c) personal context. However, I break the personal reflections into two sections that bracket the presentation of content and context. So, sections 1 and 4 present my personal perspective; section 2 is a shot at a hypothetical expression of the content of Lonergan’s meaning of complete; section 3 handles the context problem. The immediately relevant expressed contexts for the effort here are The Sketch in Insight and page 250 of Method in
Theology. The Sketch speaks of content and context of an interpretation; the page pushes discomfortingly for a personal stand.