Retroduction: an alternative research st
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Bjørnar Sæther
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Article
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1998
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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In this essay it is argued that the dualism between pure inductive and deductive research processes can be overcome by introducing retroduction. Retroduction makes possible a research process that is characterized by the linking of evidence (induction) and social theory (deduction) in a continually