INCLUSIVE NON-POSITIVISM

POSITIVISM OR NON-POSITIVISM - TERTIUM NON DATUR A Critique of Ontological Syncretism in IS Research

This paper revisits the debate between positivism and its alternatives in the field of information systems from a philosophical point of view. It will argue that the heart of the debate is the ontological difference between the views of reality as observer-independent versus observer-dependent. The logical axiom of the excluded third (tertium non datur) informs us that two contradictory options...

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