"aim of inquiry" is a correct phrase and can be used in written English.
It refers to the purpose or goal of conducting an investigation or seeking information. Example: The aim of the inquiry was to gather evidence and determine the cause of the accident.
Realism holds that the constitutive aim of inquiry is the truth of some matter.
Truth is widely held to be the constitutive aim of inquiry.
The truth, of course, has the property of being true, but not every proposition that is true is the truth in the sense of the aim of inquiry.
A longstanding criticism of convergence to the truth as an aim of inquiry is that, while fine in itself, this aim is consistent with any crazy behaviour in the short run [Salmon 1991].
Even those who think the aim of inquiry is something more accessible than the truth (such as the empirically discernible truth), as well as those who think the aim is something more robust than possessing truth (such as the possession of knowledge) still affirm truth as a necessary component of the end of inquiry.
Unity, Plurality and the Aims of Inquiry.
In terms of scientific inquiry and based on the aims of inquiry in foresight itself, foresight cannot be clearly assigned to any of the predominant scientific disciplines.
For a proposed norm of inquiry, we can apply means-ends analysis to ask whether the norm helps or hinders the aims of inquiry.
The paradoxes are dissolved by showing how responsible inquiry respects a division of labor between the functions of evidence and social values the evidence helping inquirers track the truth, the social values helping inquirers construct representations out of those truths that serve the pragmatic aims of inquiry (Anderson 1995b).
In his letter to DeWitt, Everett described how he understood the aim of physical inquiry: "There can be no question of which theory is 'true' or 'real' — the best that one can do is reject those theories which are not isomorphic to sense experience" Barrett and Byrne (eds) (2012, 253).
After all, truth is the constitutive aim of all inquiry and a necessary condition of knowledge.
