Perhaps you are beginning to see how essential […] it is to be perplexed and know it. Wonder is the beginning of wisdom in learning from books as well as from nature (123).
Perplexity, or aporia, is an epistemological state in which something is known “about,” but the knowledge held is known to be insufficient to resolve into insight. Crucially, there is knowledge that the knowledge is insufficient.
This allows inquiry to proceed, as there is a target: I can know more about this.