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DOI:
10.17708/DRMJ.2022.v11n02a03
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The literature on research methods, while introducing both inductive and deductive research strategies, as well as the associated qualitative and quantitative research methods, provides the epistemological underpinning of research. However, this literature generally neglects the role of logic in research, which sometimes could lead to inappropriate reasoning in both doctoral thesis work and research papers. Inappropriate reasoning is due primarily to misinterpreting inductive and deductive forms of reasoning in the literature on research methods as a result of neglecting logic. This paper sheds new light on interpreting inductive and deductive forms of knowledge creation including logic, which has played an important role as the science of reasoning in knowledge creation since the time of Aristotle. This paper is speculative in nature, and provides the reflections of an experienced researcher from the management domain.
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37‐54