Sentences with phrase «object of inquiry»

That's obviously a lot, so suffice it to say, these cool, compact stars are important objects of inquiry among both astronomers and astrobiologists.

Certain objects of inquiry, such as sermons and histories, will probably yield a higher proportion of world view data, but important insights may also be gained from other elements.

This distinguishes the theoretical work of a theological school from all other forms of critical inquiry, even those that use the same disciplines in regard to what appear to be the same objects of inquiry.

Broadly speaking, the avowed object of the inquiry is an attempt to resolve, at least theoretically, the present tensions in this field between East and West.

Originally conceived in the early 1990s to address the burgeoning, largely unexamined terrain of international curatorial practice, the Graduate Program has since evolved into an institution poised to account for artistic production and circulation in light of contemporary objects of inquiry including, but not limited to: globalization; modes of networks and distribution; technology and aesthetics; spatial politics; new institutionalism; social practice; and artistic and archival research.

A focus on such practice — rather than on more common objects of inquiry such as artworks or artists — reorients our map of the field, orients it around the doing of art.

The object of inquiry in the social sciences is man - in - relation.

Once launched in a particular direction, participant observers seek occasions that present an object of inquiry and try to uncover the object's function and meaning.

But the fact remains that the objects of his inquiry are consequences of policy decisions, and therefore, that his concerns are with acts of freedom rather than of necessity.

She delights in the idea of Octavio Paz that criticism is the contemporary version of religion, springing from the faith that the object of inquiry is intelligible.

For Dillard, scientists properly refuse to make value judgments on the objects of their inquiry.

How then in the circumstances today is philosophy to proceed to take up its task of making nature again an object of its inquiry?

The methods of participant observation are the same as those set forth in chapter 6, but the object of the inquiry is somewhat different.

The object of inquiry is neither a negotiation between two opinions nor a second level explication of the informant's ideas.

In so far as the Truth is conceived as something to be learned, its non-existence is evidently presupposed, so that in proposing to learn it one makes it the object of an inquiry.

As Ashcroft has been bankrolling the Tories in marginals for a fair few years now, David Cameron deciding, unlike Michael Howard, that Ashcroft knows best, this funding may become the object of some inquiry at some point anyway.

The manufactured being at the center of the film, Ava — a clear descendant of «the future Eve» — begins as an object of inquiry, a machine to be run through its paces, a Turing test made flesh.

I was shown the way that point of view shapes understanding of the object of inquiry when I recently examined freehand maps of the world drawn from memory by a group of preservice teachers.1 As might be expected, the vast majority depicted North America in the center of the map and with a relatively high degree of accuracy and detail.

If this process is to work as Parliament intended, it is imperative that there be no ability to interrupt an inquiry with litigation in another court that spawns its own further litigation and takes the process ever further away from the object of the inquiry.

Upon becoming a ward of the state, the child is a commodity of the system, one with physical structure and financial value, and is a subject and object of inquiry and investigation.