disciplinary boundaries
collocation in Englishmeaningsofdisciplinaryandboundary
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disciplinary
adjective
uk/ˌdɪs.əˈplɪn.ər.i/us/ˈdɪs.ə.plɪ.ner.i/
relating ...
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boundary
noun[C]
uk/ˈbaʊn.dər.i/us/ˈbaʊn.dər.i/
a real or imagined line that marks the edge or limit ...
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(Definition ofdisciplinaryandboundaryfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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This includes philosophy of science but also sociology and interdisciplinary work that fails to fit within conventional disciplinary boundaries.
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The trail of documents was determined by searches under this theme, irrespective of disciplinary boundaries.
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We argued that the novelty of self-organization in the natural and psychological sciences and the translation of concepts across disciplinary boundaries were partly to blame.
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It draws on an impressively wide range of literature to carry the discussion across disciplinary boundaries.
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This discrepancy could be put down to the disciplinary boundaries between ethnomusicology and historical musicology; such misunderstanding is understandable, if distressing.
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These new tools may be interdisciplinary in nature because the environmental problems we face today do not fall within disciplinary boundaries.
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Affective engineering supports communication across the disciplinary boundaries of the team and informs the conceptual design decision-making process when compromising between appeal and function.
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However, the final effect of the divisions is conversely to strengthen rather than to merge disciplinary boundaries.
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This was not just a result of finer disciplinary boundaries, philology moving away from medical science.
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Scholars are moving beyond disciplinary boundaries to engage concepts of power and order/disorder interfacing many disciplines.
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However, it quickly becomes apparent that the scope of this study extends far beyond such disciplinary boundaries.
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The book attempts to cross disciplinary boundaries between applied linguistics and sociology.
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They attempt to establish the disciplinary boundaries of legitimate mathematical knowledge.
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He grasped a picture both wider and deeper than views cut by disciplinary boundaries are capable of seeing.
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Rather, we need to build complexity into the models if we want them to reflect reality (rather than wishful thinking or traditional disciplinary boundaries).
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All four papers are based primarily on archaeological data and analyses, but, because of the nature of the material, they cross disciplinary boundaries.
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The challenge here is to show how disciplinary boundaries are historically and culturally contingent constructs and how differences might occasion a sense of relevance.
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Despite the high degree of specialization among the present-day academic sciences, evolution knows no disciplinary boundaries.
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