Sentence examples for a theoretical inquiry from inspiring English sources

The conversation between Socrates and Euthyphro leads to a theoretical inquiry in which various proposed answers as to piety's ousia (essence) are probed and ultimately found unsatisfactory, but in which no answer to the piety or impiety of Euthyphro's action is given.

I asked a theoretical question.

"That's a theoretical question," he said.

It was not just a theoretical question.

The other day we saw our first copy of "ETC" an international quarterly of discussion, research, and theoretical inquiry in Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Sematics.

By Stanley Edgar Hyman The New Yorker, March 11 , 1950 P. 19The other day we saw our first copy of "ETC" an international quarterly of discussion, research, and theoretical inquiry in Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Sematics.

Findings were consistent with theoretical inquiry about anomie.

"Grounded theorists cannot anticipate where their theoretical inquiry will take them.

Charmaz (2008b) states that "Grounded theorists cannot anticipate where their theoretical inquiry will take them.

Several fragments suggest that this tranquillity results from his not engaging in theoretical inquiry like other philosophers, and with his not engaging in debate with those philosophers.

As for the avoidance of theoretical inquiry and debate, it is fair to assume that Pyrrho will have regarded such inquiry and debate as troublesome because it is necessarily fruitless and interminable.