You conduct an enquiry in thought. This means that you assume a sequence of connected ideas each of which refocuses attention on a different object. At the conclusion you pull away the scaffolding of thoughts and are left with attention pointing to a hitherto unsuspected object, independently of any thoughts. Your world is thus expanded, since it is not made of thoughts but of capabilities of attention. This picture of the process must be incorrect since it begs the question of attention having an object apart from thought, indeed of attention being separate from thought. Try this instead: attention is presumed to have an object; the presumption, the attention and the object all making up what is called thought. The thought of thought is that thoughts can be strung together in logical articulations. So in thought you can follow through the lines of such an articulation until it breaks. The collapse of the articulation recoils back on the initial thought and breaks the presumption. The only thing left unbroken is that which you mistakenly identified as attention. And was there any mistaken identification in the first place, because you 'know' that every articulation of thought will so break!