Response to discussion question 3

Respond to your colleagues’ postings in one or more of the following ways:Ask a probing question.Share an insight from having read your colleague’s posting.Offer and support an opinion.Validate an idea with your own experience.Make a suggestion.Expand on your colleague’s posting.The philosophy of science is to gain an understanding the concept of science trying to understand how it works. Seeking the meaning to all of the factors of science wanting to grasp exactly how it works and the meaning behind many of the theories that are being worked on.Paradigm is an established system or way of doing things.  Epistemology refers to a Theory of knowledge, a theory of how human beings come to have knowledge of the world around them—of how we know what we know. Epistemology provides a philosophical grounding for establishing what kinds of knowledge are possible and for deciding how knowledge can be judged as being both adequate and legitimate. In the social sciences, the term is used in the context of deciding which scientific procedures produce reliable social scientific knowledge. refers to a Theory of knowledge, a theory of how human beings come to have knowledge of the world around them—of how we know what we know. Epistemology provides a philosophical grounding for establishing what kinds of knowledge are possible and for deciding how knowledge can be judged as being both adequate and legitimate. In the social sciences, the term is used in the context of deciding which scientific procedures produce reliable social scientific knowledge.Ontology is a branch of philosophy that is concerned with the nature of what exists. It is the study of theories of being, theories about what makes up reality.All of these terms go hand in hand with research because we have to understand these terms when we are preparing to do any kind of research.  If a researcher is about to start the establishment of study they must first know that there is a philosophy of why they are doing what they trying to accomplish with the research. The other terms such as paradigm describes a way of doing things that may be habit for a researcher or some sort of habit they may need to form when researching. These terms guides the researcher through what the research consist of.Blaikie, N. (2004). Epistemology. In Michael S. Lewis-Beck, A. Bryman, & Tim Futing Liao (Eds.), The SAGE Encyclopedia of Social Science Research Methods. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, Inc. doi:http://dx.doi.org.ezp.waldenulibrary.org/10.4135/9781412950589.n281