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Nursing science continues to debate the adequacy of various philosophic
paradigms for their ability to forward the discipline. Nursing must
embrace multiple paradigms, methodologies, and their philosophic assumptions
to adequately address the mixed and multifaceted human phenomena
that is the focus of clinical inquiry in nursing. This article examines
the differences in interpretive and critical approaches to clinical
inquiry relative to praxis, expanding to what degree praxis can be used to inform
nursing practice. Differences in the nature of knowledge, goals of
inquiry, and

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