| Name | Empiricism | Interpretism |
|---|
| Epistemology | “Positivism: every knowledge must be proven by facts | |
| Knowledge is generated through empirical observation and experimentation.” | “Reflectivism/Post-Positivism: accumalate knowledge through observation and hypothesis testing | |
| Deep thinking/reflection to uncover hidden turth/reality | | |
| Socrates Method” | | |
| Ontology | Truth is out there regardless of researcher’s perception of them | “Socially constructed concepts are not real existence and only are creation by people |
| Knowledge is created by researchers and scholars” | | |
| Aesthetics | “Universal beauty/value that is defined and fixed | |
| Democracy & Human Rights” | Beauty and value is relative to the interpreter | |
