scientific inquiry
collocation in Englishmeaningsofscientificandinquiry
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scientific
adjective
uk/ˌsaɪənˈtɪf.ɪk/us/ˌsaɪənˈtɪf.ɪk/
relating to science, or using the organized methods ...
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inquiry
noun
uk/ɪnˈkwaɪə.ri/us/ˈɪŋ.kwɚ.i/
(the process of asking) ...
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(Definition ofscientificandinquiryfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofscientific inquiry
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I focus on how microscopists made the invisible fine structure of this tissue accessible toscientificinquiry.
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At the same time, the need for careful linguistic description is as urgent as ever, for the dual purposes ofscientificinquiryand clinical application.
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Given this landscape, and barring some ordering mechanism, it was inevitable that research on traits would lack the progressive character ideally associated withscientificinquiry.
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A pattern is not usually invented, so creativity is subordinated here toscientificinquiryand observation.
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On the other hand, emphasizing complexity often results in a combinatorial explosion of possibilities that paralyzesscientificinquiry.
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I will comment later about scientists,scientificinquiry, and the potential for reaching the common goal.
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How prepared are preservice teachers to teachscientificinquiry?
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Traditionalscientificinquiryrequires that we reject all possible alternative hypotheses before we accept a hypothesis.
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But such phenomena will always elude systematicscientificinquiry, as long as we categorize them as we do now.
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In contrast, speech perception and phonology, though objects of seriousscientificinquiry, have at times taken a backseat in these grander debates.
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This seems to me to be a case of rhetoric masquerading asscientificinquiry.
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These methods are hence to be abandoned and replaced by or embedded within empiricalscientificinquiry.
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These factors help explain why the view that referential success must rest on a pedestal of philosophical orscientificinquiryis misguided.
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It appears that social psychology is a discipline that has stumbled onto a series of interesting phenomena that, so far, elude systematicscientificinquiry.
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Simulation is not, of course, a substitute for the direct observation of natural processes which is, and should be, the bottom line ofscientificinquiry.
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Both these sets of interviews are of course anecdotal and do not constitute rigorousscientificinquiry.
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A source of the problem may be an inappropriate analogy between the operation of the perceptual system and the operation ofscientificinquiry.
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On the one hand, given its generalscientificinquiryinto health and disease, their conditions, etiologies, and treatments, it makes a claim for universality.
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While such trials may have educational value, they are not an appropriate basis forscientificinquiry.
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