Logics of Enquiry

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Logics of Enquiry

• Wendy Stainton Rogers
• Health Social Care

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Two Paradigms

• Different
• Ontologies
• Epistemologies
• Logics of enquiry

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Ontologies

• Creatures in the sea
• Music making

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Epistemologies

• a single, objective reality asks is it true?
• multiple contingent realities asks what does
  it do?

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Logics of enquiry

• Interrogative methods
• Induction
• Deduction
• Abduction

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Logics of enquiry

• Desired outcomes
• Explanation
• Explication

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Logics of enquiry

• Research methods
• Quantitative
• Qualitative
• Abductive

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Logics of enquiry

• Dealing with complexity
• Reduce it through ironing out
• Reduce it though unfolding
• Reduce it through focusing on anomalies and
  contradictions

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Abductory research

• juxtaposition
• rhetoric
• outliers

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