field of inquiry
collocation in Englishmeaningsoffieldandinquiry
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field
noun
uk/fiːld/us/fiːld/
an area of land, used for growing crops or keeping animals, usually surrounded by ...
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inquiry
noun
uk/ɪnˈkwaɪə.ri/us/ˈɪŋ.kwɚ.i/
(the process of asking) ...
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(Definition offieldandinquiryfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesoffield of inquiry
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This is afieldofinquirymarked by inference rather than syllogism. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.
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My purpose here is to examine both, and the thematic and methodological questions they raise for this major contemporaryfieldofinquiry.
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Population ethics is an underdevelopedfieldofinquiry.
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The only glimmer of unity among this diversity was the high proportion of papers relating to women's studies - itself an extremely diversefieldofinquiry.
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They may not be able to identify experts as metallurgists or to characterize the parameters of metallurgy as afieldofinquiry.
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Yet, it is the very magnitude of his professional pursuits that defy categorization or even placement within a singlefieldofinquiry.
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Models can be thought of as ideal types or heuristic devices which order afieldofinquiry.
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A fundamentally interdisciplinaryfieldofinquiry, bioethics engages scholars from disciplines such as philosophy, law, sociology, religious studies, economics, the health sciences.
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Instead, thisfieldofinquiryhas emphasized the productive use of verbal morphology by employing type-token analyses.
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These books provide useful starting points for afieldofinquirythat will surely grow during the coming years.
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It could moreover provide valuable insight into the value orientations that shape gerontological conceptualisations in our ownfieldofinquiry.
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The subject of how professional linguists affect theirfieldofinquirygives us pause to reflect on the work of this volume.
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This idea of competition is again one that may well later stretch out over a widefieldofinquiryinto intellectual development.
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The application of these features speaks to the importance of cross-disciplinary investigations and the application of tools from onefieldofinquiryto data from another.
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These intersections suggest a potentialfieldofinquirythat concerns itself explicitly with science and economic calculation, a potential that is partly realized in the essays that follow.
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Individual disciplines have undoubtedly achieved depth of insight by bounding theirfieldofinquiry, but this has often been at the cost of ignoring important feedbacks within the system studied.
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Since then, intercultural communication as afieldofinquiryhas been surprisingly slow in developing a strong interest in business and organizational settings as sites of language contact.
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It will recall to us the dangers of focusing too narrowly on the "great" texts, from which generalizations are then extended to a far largerfieldofinquiry.
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Have they definitely decided that it shall be part of itsfieldofinquiry?
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Obviously, inquiries about transactions merely in contemplation would not be a fruitfulfieldofinquiry.
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