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Definition of Line of inquiry
1. Noun. An ordering of questions so as to develop a particular argument.
Generic synonyms: Argument, Argumentation, Line, Line Of Reasoning, Logical Argument
Lexicographical Neighbors of Line Of Inquiry
Literary usage of Line of inquiry
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Life of the Hon. Henry Cavendish: Including Abstracts of His More by George Wilson (1851)
"... ultimately converged to one line of inquiry, which led to the discovery under
discussion. A brief reference, accordingly, to these preliminary ..."
2. Faith and Thought: Journal of the Victoria Institute by Victoria Institute (Great Britain) (1904)
"... can be perceived in a way that is impossible from any other point of view.
III. THE SECOND line of inquiry, ie, BY WAY OF KNOWLEDGE OF THE CREATOR. 1. ..."
3. The Scientific Bases of Faith by Joseph John Murphy (1873)
"Another There is, however, another line of inquiry on this subject line of which
does not lead to so purely negative a result. inquiry. ..."
4. Year Book by Carnegie Institution of Washington (1906)
"The details of the results obtained in the first line of inquiry may, I think,
... The second line of inquiry is respecting the possibility of a plan- ..."
5. The Cyclopædia of Education: A Dictionary of Information for the Use of by Henry Kiddle, Alexander Jacob Schem (1883)
"... we have external tangency, intersection, internal tangency, or one wholly
interior to the other ; and thus we exhaust this line of inquiry. ..."
6. Property and Contract in Their Relations to the Distribution of Wealth by Richard Theodore Ely, Samuel Peter Orth, Willford Isbell King (1914)
"The third line of inquiry indicated by our definition of distribution is ...
to our second line of inquiry alone.6 While these writers are broadening the ..."
7. Reports and Notes of Cases on Letters Patent for Inventions [1601-1843] by Thomas Webster, Great Britain Courts (1844)
"The record assuredly gave no information which called upon the pursuer to expect
such a line of inquiry and evidence, or would have enabled him to meet it. ..."
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