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Article: The Role of Theory in Social Work Research.(response to articles by Bruce A. Thyer and Tomi Gomory, Journal of Social Work Education, Winter 2001; includes replies)
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- Journal of Social Work Education
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- September 22, 2001
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In "Two Dogmas of Empiricism" (1951) The philosopher W. V. O. Quine wrote that
the totality of our knowledge ... is a man-made fabric which impinges on
experience only at the edges.... Total science is like a field of force,
whose boundary conditions are experience.... But the total field is so
undetermined by its boundary conditions, experience, that there is much
latitude of choice as to what statements to re-evaluate in light of any
single contrary experience. (pp. 39-40)
These sage words are well illustrated by Bruce A. Thyer's and Tomi Gomory's articles in the Winter 2001 Journal of Social Work Education. Each author raised worthy ...