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Can you help me understand the similarities between technical rationality and reflection in action and between logical positivism and interpretive epistemologies?
What are the evidences of technical rationality and how does it relate to human services?

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The solution discusses the similarities between technical rationality and reflection in action between logical positivism and interpretive epistemologies.

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Can you help me understand the similarities between technical rationality and reflection in action and between logical positivism and interpretive epistemologies?

What are the evidences of technical rationality and how does it relate to human services? I am completely lost.

Technical rationality focuses on the way that people look at what is happening around them. The knowledge that is acquired in this way is concrete, objective, measurable, and explained in rational terms to enrich problem solving abilities.

Reflection in action is the process of obtaining knowledge spontaneously. In other words, a person thinks about an action and reflects what might happen in the scenario without necessarily knowing concrete facts about it. Then through the process of ...

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