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Inquiry

An inquiry (also spelled as enquiry in British English) is any process that has the aim of augmenting knowledge, resolving doubt, or solving a problem. A theory of inquiry is an account of the various types of inquiry and a treatment of the ways that each type of inquiry achieves its aim.

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Inquiry in the pragmatic paradigm

C. S. PeirceWilliam JamesJohn DeweyNormative scienceLogic
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Overview

British EnglishKnowledgeDoubtSolving a problemAbductive inference
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Inquiry theories

AbductionAristotlePrior AnalyticsLunules
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Example of inquiry

How We Think
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related to Bibliography · 119
Inquiry → Action, An Inquiry, Angluin, Aristotle, Arthur, August, Automatic Press, Awbrey, Blackwell Publishers, Buffalo, Burks, CA, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, Carbondale, Charles Hartshorne, Charles Sanders Peirce, Cheryl, Cited, Collected Papers
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Inquiry → Aristotle, Boole, Borrowing, Charles Sanders Peirce, De Morgan, In, It, John Dewey, Kant, Peirce, William James
related to Limits to inquiry · 7
Inquiry → Deuteronomy, God, Hebrew Bible, Jewish, Peirce, The Rabbis, They
related to Zeroth order inquiry · 6
Inquiry → Boolean, By, In, Many, One, Peirce's
related to Example of inquiry · 3
Inquiry → Examples, John Dewey, Peirce's
related to External links · 3
Inquiry → Media, Wikimedia Commons, Wiktionary-logo-en-v2
related to Once over quickly · 3
Inquiry → Dewey's, Let's, Peirce's
see also · 3
Inquiry → Charles Sanders Peirce, Philosophy, West ChurchmanCuriosityEmpirical
is a · 1
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knowledge inference reasoning one case experience deduction analogy base logic first inductive example three fact rule abductive two just rules

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Inquiryrelated to BibliographyAngluin0.60section
Inquiryrelated to BibliographyDana0.60section
Inquiryrelated to BibliographyLearning0.60section
Inquiryrelated to BibliographyHints0.60section
Inquiryrelated to BibliographyDavid Haussler0.60section
Inquiryrelated to BibliographyLeonard Pitt0.60section
Inquiryrelated to BibliographyProceedings0.60section
Inquiryrelated to BibliographyWorkshop0.60section
Inquiryrelated to BibliographyComputational Learning Theory0.60section
Inquiryrelated to BibliographyMIT0.60section
Inquiryrelated to BibliographyAugust0.60section

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