Re "Laws of Nature, Source Unknown" (Dec. 18): Science is a methodology for asking questions.
What the three members of Portishead share is a methodology: building each song around what Mr. Barrow calls "a sonic world," often just a texture.
Lesson 2: There is a methodology behind every spin, pivot and cut in the N.B.A.; angles are more important here than in a geometry class.
In that I share the view of Mourinho, who says that football is a methodology of training, concept, periodisation and, logically, of strategy.
It is a methodology for change, often used in the private sector but, which is, with few exceptions, neglected in humanitarian work.
What they share is a methodology of huge volume, because they conduct automatic surveys, or robo-calls, in which respondents simply push keypad buttons to express preferences.
But to begin with a conviction and then to use one's intellectual prowess to establish support for that conviction is a methodology that really has worked for scientists, including Deutsch.
PTES is a methodology that provides this type of feature.
DBR is a methodology commonly used by Learning Scientists.
"This is a methodology that we're able to leverage with these processes".
The difference between the two movements is that Free Software is a social movement, and open source is a methodology.
