Sentence examples for forms of enquiry from inspiring English sources

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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.

(Disraeli memorably called him a "noisy poet"). This isn't to say Finlayson has no feeling for the work, but to suggest that he seems unduly surprised about the separation between living and writing - following too closely in James's footprints, without deploying more contemporary forms of enquiry.

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

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.

"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.

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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.

Similarly, science is an exemplary form of enquiry because it is technical, fallible, done in communities and able to reshape our values.

Biography has become a form of enquiry into what we mean by a life, as well as a uniquely inventive way of telling stories.

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