Abstract
Inquirers explore situations from their ownWeltanschauung and model them through a paradigm. A relationship between Weltanschauung and the paradigm is explored, as is that between paradigms and situations. Within the context of Critical Systems Thinking, exploration of how paradigms and their coordination, and thus the methodologies that they entertain, can be used within the action of complementarism.
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Yolles, M.I. Critical systems thinking, paradigms, and the modelling space. Systems Practice 9, 549–570 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02169213
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