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"Study" is a battle command normally available through the Survival main skill. It lets you view the stats and descriptions of enemies that aren't in your Codex yet (enemies you haven't defeated before), and adds them to the Codex upon use. Inventor's Eye adds this command on Survival level 2, meaning it works on all enemies (Survival 1 doesn't let you study some of the more powerful creatures).