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It might seem odd to you that I have said ‘SCIENCES’. First of all isn't there just ‘science’, so why have I put it in the plural ‘sciences’? To tell you the truth, I was a bit nervous about putting this section in. In a book titled De‐Mystifying Research Methods, my aim is to make things as simple, as understandable as possible. Yet here I am with the most complex sets of ideas that there are in research and I am struggling to make it simple! Anyway, here goes. I shall try to make it simple and to keep it brief.

I want to introduce you to four terms which are inter‐related, and to show you how they are related. There are: ontology, epistemology, methodology, and methods.