object of inquiry
collocation in Englishmeaningsofobjectandinquiry
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object
noun
uk/ˈɒb.dʒɪkt/us/ˈɑːb.dʒɪkt/
a thing that you can see or touch but that is not usually a living animal, plant, ...
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inquiry
noun
uk/ɪnˈkwaɪə.ri/us/ˈɪŋ.kwɚ.i/
(the process of asking) ...
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(Definition ofobjectandinquiryfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Though a vast and indispensableobjectofinquiry, political language fails to capture the full scope of the concept of class.
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Even as technologies for measuring space became increasingly precise, colonialist assumptions continued to define - and necessarily distort - theobjectofinquiry.
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The "self" in selforganization may be a semantic convenience in the physical sciences, but in developmental psychology the self itself is anobjectofinquiry.
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If we start from a biological perspective, then anything that enables rapid integration of information is the naturalobjectofinquiry, whatever we choose to label it.
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An unstable syndrome (and certainly a nonexistent one) is the wrongobjectofinquiry; likewise, a false hypothesis is, most likely, the wrong one to follow.
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Whereas the natural sciences abstract away from it, it becomes the primaryobjectofinquiryin the human sciences.
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Naturalism is a constitutive commitment that delimits possible objects of inquiry.
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When applied to intellectual activities where the objects of inquiry are humans or human characteristics, reflexivity is typically defined as the self-referential quality of theory.
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But perhaps even more telling is the image of a mounting body of scientific literature that seemingly diminishes in its ability to capture its objects of inquiry.
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The coal industry is to be the subject of consideration; the steel and cotton trades are to be objects of inquiry.
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