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Realism vs. Idealism

Realism •Typical in natural science •Positivism •Theory testing •Quantitative •Experiments and statistical analysis •Isolated phenomena and fixed relationships Idealism •Typical in social sciences •Interpretivism •Theory building •Qualitative •Descriptive and exploratory •Complex relationships with human component Reference: Vesna Brujic-Okretic (2011) RMPI … Continue reading

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Realism

The question of the nature and plausibility of realism arises with respect to a large number of subject matters, including ethics, aesthetics, causation, modality, science, mathematics, semantics, and the everyday world of macroscopic material objects and their properties. Although it … Continue reading

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