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Along with epistemology and ontology, metatheory is an area of philosophy that has special relevance to the practice of social science research. Metatheory involves searching for answers to questions about the role of theory within social science research projects. Different approaches to social science research are generally based on one or another of the epistemological and ontological positions outlined previously. Partly stemming from their particular philosophical premises, these approaches to research end up using theory in strikingly different ways. Put another way, we can say that different approaches to text mining and text analysis are based on different metatheoretical premises, which are premises about the uses, capacities, and limitations of theory within empirical research. Howell (2013) provided the following list of metatheoretical positions commonly found in social science methodologies, ordered from the most abstract to the most concrete types of theorizing.