(Kirby, 2011 : viii) By taking Derrida's notion of an 'open system' to its logical conclusion, the senses of particularism – whether individual subjects, objects, words, methodologies, or even systems – lose their identifying outlines as entities or atomic individuations that communicate, or relate to each other, with causal effect.
(Before leaping from your chair in indignation about the names included or excluded, a word about methodology: only companies that were public for the entire 10 years of each decade qualified, so Internet stocks didn't. And stocks trading at $5 or less at the beginning of the decade were ruled out).
A word about methodology: The idea that wine can be neatly ranked on an objective scale, like the baseball standings, is patently absurd.
Here, too, in other words, uniform methodology tends to replace the intuitive connoisseurship that formerly typified the critic's sense of his role.
First, wording and methodology matter.
In other words, the methodology of outcome prediction modelling differs from that of prognostic factor modelling, and therefore combining both types of research into one review to reflect current evidence should be discouraged.
A quick word about the methodology.
But a word about philosophical methodology is in order.
A word about the methodology of our rankings: We considered only those international airports that served at least 10 million passengers in 2006, according to Airports Council International, a Geneva-based industry group for the world's airport operators.
A word about our methodology: When we set out to identify a variety of the most expensive household items, we found that prices for upper-upper-range products are fairly fluid everything can be customized for a few extra thousand dollars, and list prices and limits are almost nonexistent.
