And thus the native hue of resolution 
          Is sicklied o’er with the pale cast of thought, 
          And enterprises of great pith and moment 
          With this regard their currents turn awry 
          And lose the name of action. (III, i)

This is the identical division we have already seen in Thomas 
More’s contrast: “Your scholastic philosophy is not unpleasant 
among friends in familiar communication, but in the councils of 
Kings where great matters be debated and reasoned with great 
authority these things have no place.”

     Hamlet is repeating a commonplace conflict of his 
century, that between the old oral “field” approach to problems 
and the new visual approach of applied or “resolute” 
knowledge. And “resolution” is the cant or conventional term