Sentence examples for speculative inquiry from inspiring English sources
Police then sought a rehearing, and the appeals court concluded its earlier opinion had wrongly required officers "to engage in an essentially speculative inquiry" into demonstrators' minds.
"Faith" implies one particular sub-species of speculative inquiry, the kind associated with religion, but there is no enterprise of thought that does not involve speculation.
And though "Metropolis" remains a touchstone of the dystopian (but nonetheless hopeful) science-fiction imagination, it has always been much more than an anxious, speculative inquiry into the dehumanizing effects of technology.
We are invited to enter into a speculative inquiry for the purpose of condemning statutory provisions the effect of which in concrete situations, not yet developed, cannot now be definitely perceived.
ZDNet has a somewhat investigative, somewhat speculative inquiry into Phelps' musical tastes that cobbles together pieces of other interviews to determine that Phelps likes to listen mostly to hip-hop and R&B — Eminem, Young Jeezy, Outkast, Usher.
Mr Creedon confirmed that Scotland Yard has received a number of speculative inquiries from relatives asking the force to confirm that their dead child's identity was used.
While their effort contributed to the Renaissance in the West, in the Muslim world the doors of interpretation were actually closing, as traditions of speculative thought and inquiry that flourished in Islam's classical age were being snuffed out.
His books include "Benjamin Franklin: His Contribution to the American Tradition" (1953); "Franklin and Newton: An Inquiry into Speculative Newtonian Experimental Science and Franklin's Work in Electricity" (1956), and "Revolution in Science" (1985).
His intended dissertation instead became another book, "Franklin and Newton: An Inquiry into Speculative Newtonian Experimental Science and Franklin's Work in Electricity as an Example Thereof" (1956; revised edition, Harvard, 1973).
This area of inquiry remains largely speculative, since it is one thing to develop models for how psychological altruism could in principle evolve, and quite another to show convincingly that a given form of natural selection has in fact played the relevant role in actual human evolutionary history.
When scientists lose sight of the speculative character of their own inquiries, it becomes just that much easier for the on-looking public do so as well.
