Terminology

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Ontology: the study of being or existence; basic assumptions of reality. What is the nature of knowable things?

Epistemology: how we know

Methodology: process, strategy or plan of action that governs our research decisions; organizing system: the methods or organizing principles underlying a particular area of study

Teleological: relating to the study of ultimate causes in nature or of actions in relation to their ends or utility; assumptions about causation

Axiology: what values go into claims about knowledge, or the study of value, includes ethics; the science of human values; philosophical study of goodness

Dialectic: tension between conflicting ideas; investigating truths throuigh discussion

Discursive: ??