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Implications of Ontological Stance on Epistemology and Methodology
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In light of the fact that KM research and practice embraces a wide range of activities and interest, complexity emerges when consideration is given to the actual conduct of research to be undertaken. Drawing from numerous literature, KM covers, on the one hand, technological interventions (objectivist perspective) that aim to support knowledge shar...
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... basic set of beliefs is known as a paradigm (Guba, 1990:p.17) and provides guideline on how this research is conducted which consist of three main elements to an inquiry paradigm: ontology, epistemology and methodology are summarised in Table 1 Table 1 illustrates the ontological stance and indicates the link to epistemological and methodological positions that usually leads the researcher to adopt methods that are characteristic of that position. However, for the purpose of this paper, only two ontological perspectives are discussed briefly. ...
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... basic set of beliefs is known as a paradigm (Guba, 1990:p.17) and provides guideline on how this research is conducted which consist of three main elements to an inquiry paradigm: ontology, epistemology and methodology are summarised in Table 1 Table 1 illustrates the ontological stance and indicates the link to epistemological and methodological positions that usually leads the researcher to adopt methods that are characteristic of that position. However, for the purpose of this paper, only two ontological perspectives are discussed briefly. ...
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Framework (KMF) for traditional Unani Medicines (UM), that has distinct philosophy and principles as compared to other systems of traditional medicines (TM).
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to understand the nature of UM knowledge and its requirements (involving document analysis, data generation workshops and qualitative interviews with domain
experts); and external validation of proposed CKMF has been done by UM domain
experts and through developing an application prototype based on proposed CKMF.
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or fragmented views of knowledge and, thus, are unable to fulfil the requirements
of indigenous knowledge systems. Lack of KMF for UM can, thus, be attributed
to inherent difficulties involved in preserving an indigenous medicinal knowledge
system where the nature of knowledge is unique, i.e. holistic, diverse, contested,
practice-based (tacit), contextual, historical and approximate. This qualitative interpretive research study concluded that AT offers a strong theoretical approach to
design a CKMF to fulfil the UM knowledge requirements.
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an indigenous medicinal system with a specific nature of knowledge. Presently, this
kind of KMFs are non-existent. The proposed KMF is a significant step towards
preserving a rich knowledge domain of traditional Unani Medicines that offers
immense potential as an alternate and holistic health regime.
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