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Critique in its many manifestations puts up a common opposition to instrumental rationality, because such a rationality can be linked to control in the human condition in a similar way to the idea of power in the control of the natural world.

— Robert L. Flood Robert L. Flood (1990)

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Quality means meeting customers' (agreed) requirements, formal and informal, at lowest cost, first time every time.

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Positivism : knowledge is hard, real, and capable of being transmitted in a tangible form.

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In general, we seem to associate complexity with anything we find difficult to understand.

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So far it has been ascertained that a root definition is a core description of purposeful activity taken from a specific point of view.

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