"inquiry" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Third inquiry by Dexter (logical inquiry, on this occasion): 'If she spoke to nobody, how do you know she is fatigued?'
- However, even with knowledge of the methods of logical inquiry and reasoning, mistakes can happen due to a thinker's inability to apply the methods or because of character traits such as egocentrism.
- The idea that some of our rules of inference should depend on empirical information, which may not be forthcoming, is so foreign to the character of logical inquiry that a thorough re-examination of the two inferences (existential generalization and universal instantiation) may prove worth our while.
- They recognized that not all knowledge was based on logical inquiry.
- Instead, I told him, in freezing tones, that I had no such young slave girl, which a routine inquiry in the slave quarters would have confirmed, and how dare he accuse my household without making such a logical inquiry first?
- The rabbi's logical and rational inquiry is not mere logic-chopping.
- Our passages are individually student designed learning experiences that encourage students to pursue their "passion" for learning in the areas of career, adventure, practical skills, creativity, global awareness, logical inquiry or a personal challenge yet to be defined.
- All attempts at logical inquiry resulted, indeed, in leaving me more sceptical than before.
- As with most psychic phenomena, the mystery of the snake in the drawer and my precognition of its being there never yielded to logical inquiry, although for years afterwards the Troll insisted upon advancing a pet theory of her own as to the unknown cause of the event.
- This is because he believes that life itself is, in the last analysis, deeply paradoxical, and not comprehensible through logical or rational inquiry.
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