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Systems Inquiry, Scientific Creativity, and Disciplinary Fringes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2017

Ray D. William
Ray D. William*
Affiliation:
Dep. of Hortic., Oreg. State Univ., Corvallis, OR 97331
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Abstract

Basic, applied, operational, and human activity research systems represent an array of inquiry methodologies. Techniques or methods within each methodology exhibit similar functions, although purposes and results of each inquiry process differ. Appreciation and possible use of the entire inquiry process focuses attention on scale questions within a hierarchy, and encourages use of all methodologies to enhance resolution of diverse situations. Systems inquiry recognizes the need for weed scientists and agriculturists to participate in activities ranging between reductionist science and human action research.

Type
Symposium
Information
Weed Technology , Volume 6 , Issue 2 , June 1992 , pp. 483 - 485
Copyright
Copyright © 1990 by the Weed Science Society of America 

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