Sentence examples for forms of enquiries from inspiring English sources

Collingwood called the presuppositions which govern forms of enquiries "absolute" and distinguished them from "relative" presuppositions.

The heuristic principles which govern forms of enquiries are not proffered as propositions (as answers to questions) with a definite truth value, but as presuppositions.

Collingwood's critique of Ayer, in An Essay on Metaphysics, is aimed at showing that the heuristic principles which govern forms of enquiries are neither tautologies nor synthetic propositions, but are nonetheless meaningful.

The heuristic principles which govern forms of enquiry, for Collingwood, are presuppositions, not propositions.

As a result, policy and practice have too often been dominated by medical and quantitative ways of knowing the world, with such research approaches assumed to be more valid than other forms of enquiry.

"Forms of enquiry about the world around us, which we're summarising here as basic research, are vital to making changes to our society and our quality of life," she told BBC News.

The heuristic principles which govern forms of enquiry are meaningful even if they are unverifiable because they are not propositions at least not in Collingwood's technical use of the term.

The contemplative person does not just sit and stare (though Russell was not averse to this kind of contemplation) but actively seeks to know the Other through science, history and other forms of enquiry.

Collingwood's rejection of this realism develops out of an attempt to explain how forms of enquiry which make mutually exclusive absolute presuppositions can co-exist alongside one another.

If therefore metaphysics is to be possible at all, it must be subjected to an epistemological reform; it must take the form not of ontology or a study of pure being, but of a study of the presuppositions that underlie different forms of enquiry.

His reform of metaphysics entails that ontology or the study of what is must be subordinated to epistemology and thus that the subject matter of different forms of enquiry, such as nature and history, are distinct from one another not in virtue of the entities that they designate but of the way in which they investigate them.