methodology is the logos of methodos. The Greek word methodos is a composite of meta and odos. Meta means after (implying development), and odos is the road, the route. Therefore, methodos literally means ‘a following after’ (Liddell and Scott 1869), following a road, adhering to a set way. The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) defines method as ‘a particular procedure for accomplishing or approaching something’, and also ‘orderliness of thought or behaviour’; hence, methodology (according to OED) is ‘a system of methods used in a particular field’. This means that methodology refers to the
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