Popper was not a Positivist: Why Critical Rationalism Could be an Epistemology for Qualitative as well as Quantitative Social Scientific Research
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DOI: 10.1080/14780887.2018.1447622
Abstract: ABSTRACT Within this article we argue that Karl Popper’s philosophical approach of critical rationalism has often been erroneously subsumed under the positivistic epistemological paradigm in the literature on qualitative and quantitative approaches in the social… read more here.
Keywords: research; social scientific; epistemology; critical rationalism ... See more keywords