Epistemology and ontology

Ontology is the study of...?

Match the following

• Reality is individually interpreted

• Postpositivism

• Believe in an objective reality

• Positivism

• Research aims to estimate the truth

• Interpretivist

Ontology can be considered in terms of​ (a)   and​ ​ (b)   .

• relativism
• realism
• etic
• emic

Organize these options into the right categories

Groups:

(a) Realist

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(b) Relativist

• The truth of a person's experience can't be measured via scientific equipment/instruments

• Belief in a universal truth

• Truth is objective and can be generalised

• There are multiple truths based on context of experience

• Can be measured and repeat measurements will get the same results

• The 'truth' cannot be generalised

Epistemology is the theory of

Match the following

• Stay away from research

• Emic

• Truth is created by the participants

• Qualitative

• Get right inside the research

• Etic

• Measurements taken by scientific tools

• Quantitative