Concept: METHODOLOGICAL PLURALISM

Concept ID THEORY-METHODOLOGICAL-PLURALISM, version v0.1. Last substantive review: not stated by the source artifact.

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Methodological pluralism treats the legitimacy and productivity of inquiry as potentially requiring multiple methods, conceptual frameworks or theoretical alternatives rather than one universal rule of scientific method.

Version

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Senses (2)

S1 — FEYERABENDIAN_PLURALISM

Feyerabendian theoretical/methodological pluralism. SOCIOLENS INTERPRETATION

Source basis: Paul Feyerabend, Against Method (PRIMARY-TEXT BASIS)

S2 — broader pluralist research-design orientation, if separately sourced.

broader pluralist research-design orientation, if separately sourced. SOCIOLENS INTERPRETATION

Analytic roles (optional)

Controlled roles: none stated with v1.1 tokens.

As printed by the source artifact (verbatim, not normalized): epistemological; critical; reflexive.

Primary-text and secondary Source relations

PRIMARY-TEXT BASIS PRIMARY_ARTICULATION + DEVELOPMENT: Paul Feyerabend, Against Method — Registry label “PRIMARY_ARTICULATION / DEVELOPMENT”

Prose modules (prose is a canonical rendering mode)

Senses

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S1 — Feyerabendian theoretical/methodological pluralism. S2 — broader pluralist research-design orientation, if separately sourced.

Analytic roles

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epistemological; critical; reflexive.

Primary-text relations

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Feyerabend primary works. Relevant Kuhn/Lakatos relations should be typed, not automatically “rival”.

Concept relations

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TRANSLATION_REQUIRED / INCOMMENSURABLE where appropriate. CRITIQUE_OF universal methodological monism. Do not infer “cannot compare”.

Living Debate links

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LD-07. T01 / evidence architecture self-critique.

Claim relations

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usually APPLIES or BEARS_ON_PRESUPPOSITION. DISCRIMINATES only for explicitly constructed empirical comparisons.

Prose must carry

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meaning change; theory-ladenness; historical evolution of Feyerabend's position; limits of standardized evaluation.

Failure prevented

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representing pluralism through a monistic checklist.

Living Debate relations

LD-07

Claim relations

No Claim relation renders on this page.

Research-of-record provenance

Materialized by sociolens-materializer 0.6.0 at 2026-09-28T20:00:00.000Z; normalization contract SocioLens — Claim Value Vocabulary v1.0.2 — Pre-Spike Materialization Contract (v1.0.2). Content seal SHA-256 97251413854da23a78c5b1bf74edfba3242d5fc6d60f0c0768c2eea2c50e3c63.

Frozen Drive-derived inputs

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