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Analysis | Synthesis |
| Cause and effect | Unpredictability; emergence |
| Medical model | Solution-focused model |
| Reductionistic thinking Convergent thinking | Systems thinking Divergent thinking Creativity, design |
| Focus on the past Static | Focus on the future Dynamic |
| Biomedical research: RCTs | Information theory |
| Standards, guidelines, protocols (fixed) | Navigation by entropy |
| Objective reality | Reality depends on observation (Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle) (Sociology: social constructivism) |