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multiple realities  

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  • A central insight of the interpretive turn in the social and natural sciences is that the meaning of human action and language can only be grasped in relation to some specific context or frame of reference (see INDEXICALITY). For example, Thomas Kuhn (1922–1996) (The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, 2nd ed., University of Chicago Press, 1970) argued that paradigms were such a frame of reference in the natural sciences; Peter Winch (1926–1997) (The Idea of a Social Science, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1958) held that social action can be understood only in the context of particular forms of life or language games (concepts he borrowed from Ludwig Wittgenstein's [1889–1951] philosophy). [Source: The SAGE Dictionary of Qualitative Inquiry; Multiple Realities]

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