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...ethodology but is rather something that "emerges as a process methodology" in the midst of traditional research.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last=Mazze ...lso emphasizes the importance of positionality not only through disclosure in a [[positionality statement]] but as an active part of the research process ...

{{Short description|Philosophical principle that perspectives and epistemology are always linked}} ...e=Nietzsche, Epistemology, and Philosophy of Science|series=Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science|volume=204|pages=109–122|publisher=Springer|locat ...

...rly 1990s that helped to further develop Afrocentricity, which is based on concepts of agency, centeredness, location, and orientation.<ref name="Asante VIII" ...}}</ref><ref name="Conyers III" /> Africologists seek to ground their work in the perspective and culture common to African peoples, and center African p ...

...alism|anti-intellectual]] practices of deliberately presenting information in an [[wikt:abstruse|abstruse]] and imprecise manner that limits further inqu ...al skepticism]], [[Friedrich Nietzsche]] said that: "The essential element in the black art of obscurantism is not that it wants to darken individual und ...

...ave to get up off your couch and go outside and examine the way things are in the physical world. You don't have to do any science."<ref>{{cite magazine| ...wledge, it is the type of knowledge that is, by its very nature, expressed in declarative sentences or indicative propositions (e.g., "[[Capybaras]] are ...

{{Short description|Belief in an incipient technological singularity}} ...cal singularity]]—the creation of [[superintelligence]]—will likely happen in the medium future, and that deliberate action ought to be taken to ensure t ...

...ther, contribute to the structures, activities, or meaning of the society. In this way, a society comes to incorporate a diverse range of intelligent hum ...000">{{cite book| author = Badmington, Neil| title = Posthumanism (Readers in Cultural Criticism)| publisher = Palgrave Macmillan| year = 2000| isbn = 97 ...

{{Anthropology of religion}} ...l" emerged in the [[Middle Ages]]<ref name="Bartlett" /> and did not exist in the ancient world.<ref name="Oxford" /> ...

{{short description|Set of distinct concepts or thought patterns}} ...titute legitimate contributions to a field. The word ''paradigm'' is Greek in origin, meaning "pattern", and is used to illustrate similar occurrences. ...

{{Anthropology of religion|Basic}} ...'.</ref> is the quality of [[ambiguity]] or [[disorientation]] that occurs in the middle stage of a [[rite of passage]], when participants no longer hold ...

...condary values are suitable for changes. What makes an action valuable may in turn depend on the ethical values of the objects it increases, decreases, o Ethical issues that value may be regarded as a study under [[ethics]], which, in turn, may be grouped as [[philosophy]]. Similarly, ''ethical value'' may be ...

{{short description|Thought or idea that can be shared, in analogy to a gene}} {{anthropology|concepts}} ...

...7672 }}</ref> It draws knowledge from several other fields like sociology, anthropology, psychology, economics, etc. It is about creating something by thinking ac ...ed where the subject is felt to have been neglected or even misrepresented in the traditional disciplinary structure of research institutions, for exampl ...

* [[Laboratory]] – facility that provides controlled conditions in which scientific research, experiments, and measurement may be performed. * [[Objectivity (science)|Objectivity]] – the idea that scientists, in attempting to uncover truths about the natural world, must aspire to elimin ...

...tic study of [[semiosis|sign processes]] and the communication of meaning. In semiotics, a [[Sign (semiotics)|sign]] is defined as anything that communic ...predictions about, and adapt to, their semiotic [[ecological niche|niche]] in the world. ...

...] or other [[sound]]s, and [[current (fluid)|currents]] convey information in a more continuous form.<ref name="Anderson">{{cite book|title=Understanding ...uli]], [[pattern theory|pattern]], [[perception]], [[Proposition#Treatment in logic|proposition]], [[knowledge representation|representation]], and [[Ent ...

...oin showing the owl of Athena|The [[owl of Athena]], a symbol of knowledge in the Western world]] ...ether something else besides it is needed. These controversies intensified in the latter half of the 20th century due to a series of [[Gettier problem#Ge ...

...[sequence]] of [[existence]] and [[event (philosophy)|events]] that occurs in an apparently [[irreversible process|irreversible]] succession from the [[p ...ries:Time |quote=The indefinite continued progress of existence and events in the past, present, and future regarded as a whole |date=2011 |publisher=Oxf ...

...lumbia 6 by David Shankbone.jpg|thumb|Two men argue at a political protest in [[New York City]].]] ...sion]]. It studies rules of [[inference]], [[logic]], and procedural rules in both [[Artificial intelligence|artificial]] and real-world settings.<ref>{{ ...

...ransform into ordered 3D meshes of crystalline [[nanowire]]s as summarized in the model below.<ref>{{Cite journal | doi= 10.1039/C4TA02202E| title= Templ ...ry]] discusses self-organization in terms of islands of [[predictability]] in a sea of chaotic unpredictability. ...