Ontology

Epistemology

Epistemology and ontology together

Inductive reasoning.
What does it work towards?
What is it associated with?
Quantitative or Qualitative?

Deductive Reasoning
What does it work from and what does it test for?
Quantitative or Qualitative?

Positivism / objectivism / realism

INTERPRETIVE / CONSTRUCTIONIST / NATURALISTIC APPROACH / RELATIVISM

CRITICAL REALISM / PRAGMATISM–
(mixed methods approach).

So what does it all mean?

A researcher taking an objectivist/ positivist view, (quantitative approach) may want to establish facts using a “scientific approach” and try to make links between cause and effect.
They may use an experiment to ‘test’ an existing theory (deductive reasoning).