4d (edited) • Dissertation Discussion
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Greetings, members,
I have decided to revisit the great classics of the Western Canon and am reading through Aristotle's Metaphysics. I would like to offer the following quote for members' meditation:
'And these things, the most universal, are on the whole the hardest for men to know; for they are farthest from the senses. And the most exact of the sciences are those which deal most with first principles; for those which involve fewer principles are more exact than those which involve additional principles.' — Aristotle, Metaphysics, Book 1, Chapter 2
Aristotle's proposition bears heavily on the dissertation process at two points: (i) when clarifying the conceptual and phenomenological architecture of your study and (ii) downstream during the interpretation of your data.
If we follow Aristotle, then the dissertation ought to involve the essential and aspire to not only address the local implication of the problem space (or warrant) established in your proposal, but to order your findings towards the greater erudition of your field of study.
Just some food for thought.
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