The first phase in a multistep validation process constitutes a question bank construction.
Researchers' underlying assumptions about what constitutes valuable knowledge may not be congruent with potential participants' views on what constitutes a question worthy of investigation and how to answer it.
Furthermore, what constitutes a question is not always clear: human speech does not come with explicit question marks, so the occurrence of a question may be ambiguous, and that ambiguity may serve the micro-political ends of the participants, allowing for such things as diplomatic corrections or soft directions.
This is not just an ad hoc response to the difficulties imposed by infinite states, but is based on a principled view of the nature of inquiry — of what constitutes an inquiry, a question, a query, a cognitive problem, or a subject matter.
In the earlier play, it was racism and people's inability to face it directly; set at a liberal New England college, "Spinning Into Butter" was a tricky play, in a good way — you couldn't possibly watch it without examining your own assumptions and fondest beliefs about how to deal with racial questions, or, for that matter, about what constitutes a racial question.
The role played by gravity in the development of such dome-and-keel structures constitutes a key question in Archean tectonics.
Thinking Matters courses are meant to help you develop a sense for what constitutes a genuine question or problem and how to address it in a creative and disciplined manner.
The decision as to what constitutes a homework question is made by the various experts on the site and is entirely dependent on their judgment.
Given that metabolite abundance is recognized as the most accurate indicator of phenotype, deciphering enzymes that regulate such phenotype certainly constitutes a relevant question and links metabolite data with upstream molecular mechanisms.
After examining the arguments in that thoughtful and extensive debate (which occurred in the shadow of ratification), the paper concludes that the removal question constitutes a classic "difficult constitutional question"—the very sort that the modern canon of avoidance seeks to resolve through statutory construction rather than judicial review.
