The Three Pillars of Scientific Research Methodology

This paper takes a qualitative approach to the three pillars of scientific research methodology: epistemological logical and technical. It carries out a comprehensive but not exhaustive review of the critical literature and other documents on the subject seeking to clarify its correct understanding and appropriate use. It discusses the obstacles to scientific progress the main ones being imperfect human interpretations and the poor adaptation and/or application of research methods by the researcher. It considers and presents ethics as a driving force behind authentic scientificity. To this end it uses: the critical-dialectical method or historical-structural method as the logical basis of its investigation; the hypothetical-deductive method as the basis of its structure of thought; and the non-participant observational method of the bibliographic and documentary type as the procedural basis of its investigation. It also consists of metalinguistic research.