Complementary Approach and Mixed Assessments – INNOAGON's Basic Research Methods

Abstract: Every complementary approach is at the same time interdisciplinary, but not vice versa. This elementary methodological rule at INNOAGON (an acronym for the new applied science ‘innovative agonology’) is crucial because it applies whenever the word ‘struggle’ (or its synonyms) emphasises the extremity of the phenomenon under study The aim of this work is to highlight the two basic methods of INNOAGON in the most general terms. If one accepts the most general definition of method as 'a means of achieving an end', it is clear that in the field of research methodology the cognitive layer dominates over the applied one. Science is a human activity, so it is not surprising that also in this area there is room for 'fashionable lines of research', as well as crushes on 'fashionable theories'. The simplest definition of the word 'everything' – 'without exception', intuitively raises doubts: when it comes to 'theory of everything', is it really about the capabilities (competences) of science? At the core of the complementary approach is the awareness of the already available valuable knowledge about the explored phenomenon, the knowledge about the hypotheses and new questions posed by the experts studying this phenomenon, but also the awareness of the necessity to face the unknown. More in the text.

Keywords: Innovative Agonology, Mythology, Religions, Methodology of Science, Self-Defence

DOI: 10.54941/ahfe1005290

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