meta-methodology

In other words, the meta-methodology takes precedence over the individuals being study, the context being study and the social phenomenon and face validity used to form the research questions.

Love Your Job? That Doesn’t Mean You’re Better at It - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2007

Though it's not yet properly packaged for distribution, I developed a comparable meta-methodology which I hope to share in the not-too-distant-future at: www.

Getting Things Done with 5S Philosophy 2007

In his meta-methodology, Feyerabend applied to the dispute over the interpretation of scientific theories a strong measure of Popperian methodological conventionalism, arguing that the dispute between realists and instrumentalists is not a factual issue but a matter of choice.

Paul Feyerabend Preston, John 2009

According to his meta-methodology, a successful theory of rationality should respect “our preferred pre-analytic intuitions about scientific rationality”.

Historicist Theories of Rationality Matheson, Carl 2008

First, since Laudan takes his theory of rationality to apply to all spheres of intellectual endeavor, including the philosophy of science, we should expect his meta-methodology (which regulates the rational choice of a theory of scientific rationality) to be identical with his theory of rationality.

Historicist Theories of Rationality Matheson, Carl 2008

In order to understand historicism, one must also understand the distinction between methodology and meta-methodology.

Historicist Theories of Rationality Matheson, Carl 2008

Thus although historicists might agree on a general meta-methodology, they can and do vary widely in the sort of theory that they produce using that meta - methodology.

Historicist Theories of Rationality Matheson, Carl 2008

Laudan probably would do better by equating his methodology with his meta-methodology.

Historicist Theories of Rationality Matheson, Carl 2008

Thus, although not every episode in the history of science is represented in Laudan's meta-methodology, a subset of it is, where this subset consists of the “obvious” cases.

Historicist Theories of Rationality Matheson, Carl 2008

In Progress and Its Problems, Larry Laudan presents both an explicit meta-methodology and a normative theory of rationality.

Historicist Theories of Rationality Matheson, Carl 2008