One line from this caught my eye: "Only theories provide transferability." Specifically, "theories are almost by definition applicable across contexts in that the validity of any theoretical principle is assessed precisely by how well it can account for the research findings in a variety of contexts." Well, it's one thing to say that theories are adjudged according to their wide applicability. But it does not follow that only theories provide transferability (from All A are B it does not follow that all B are A). The reason I raise this is that I have seen it asserted that academic work must be placed into a 'theoretical framework' as determined by 'the literature'. Which, to me, is justified only by mistaken reasoning such as we see here.
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