We risk large errors when we ask the wrong questions or collapse distinct inquiries.
As organizational analysis developed into a distinct field of inquiry in the late 1940s, research in the United States progressed in two theoretical directions.
Mr. Graham said today's session dealt with two distinct lines of inquiry on a timeline running from 1986 to 1996.
The two fields growth and development—employ different methods of analysis and address two distinct types of inquiry.
Although related to development, the work done by economic sociologists on market transition constitutes its own distinct field of inquiry.
"Aesthetics present a completely distinct realm of inquiry and knowledge-creation," writes Aditi Mehta for MIT's Community Innovators Lab.
Blood Matters explores blood as a distinct category of inquiry and draws together scholars who might not otherwise be in conversation.
Recent developments in other financial cases, however, suggest that there are two distinct lines of inquiry, not mentioned in the Waters letter or in the financial regulators' reports, that the Department of Justice should be investigating in the mirror-trades affair.
Property rights over natural resources became a distinct area of inquiry in environmental economics and policy in the last decades, but their role has not yet been investigated thoroughly.
And in at least five distinct fields of inquiry, she thought deeply and innovatively: urban design, urban history, regional economics, the morality of the economy and the nature of economic growth.
Completion of quarterly meetings with advisers during the first year, culminating in the Spring Quarter First Year Big Picture advising meeting; and at minimum, annual meetings thereafter, including the Spring Quarter Second Year Meeting of the Minds, prior to which students must formally identify their two lead advisers and two distinct fields of inquiry.
