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Having established the link between process philosophy, boundary critique and theoretical pluralism, we can now focus in more detail on methodological pluralism. In Chapter 5, I defined methodology as “the set of theoretical ideas that justifies the use of a particular method or methods” (p.103). As methodology is essentially theoretical, it should be clear that, if it is possible to have theoretical pluralism (see the last chapter), then we should be able to have methodological pluralism too: we can accept a plurality of theories flowing into methodology, and hence a wide variety of methods may be seen as legitimate.
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Midgley, G. (2000). Methodological Pluralism. In: Systemic Intervention. Contemporary Systems Thinking. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-4201-8_9
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