Abstract
This editorial highlights the significance of realizing the underlying assumptions of positivism. Specifically, researchers in general and social scientists in particular ought to be aware of, and realize, the assumed objective reality that they are trying to measure in their research.
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The prevalence of positivism and, later, logical empiricism as an epistemological philosophy of inquiry in science (Caldwell, 1994; see Kolakowski, 1968; Smith, 1984a) is a factor contributing to the assumption about the existence of reality in social life
“Positivism insists that only one truth exists.” (Lather, 1986: 259) positivists believe in the existence of a single reality for any given phenomenon
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Role of Quantitative Methods in Quantifying "Reality" Objectively. This manuscript contains references to 20 other manuscripts. The online version of this manuscript can be found at https://journals.umt.edu.pk/sbe/jqm/volume2issue2.aspx#. This manuscript has been published under the terms of Creative Commons AttributionShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC-BY SA). JQM under this license lets others distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon the work it publishes, even commercially, as long as the authors of the original work are credited for the original creation and the contributions are distributed under the same license as original
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