A Theoretical Discussion on Methodological Study of Modern Design

摘要

A reliable and efficient method should be confirmed firstly if any researcher does want to acquire knowledge. Without this helpful assistant however, there must be a fatal obstacle between the researchers and the object on which their study were focusing, and the result would be no better than this kind of contradictory situation: the knowledge was missing but the study is still in process. The same fact has always been found in theoretical study of Modern Design, even with more complicated conditions. Once any researcher has been involved in such a study, he (or she) will finally become aware of this reality, that, for instance, whatever principle the researchers had depend on when they were in study, they had to have tolerance with opinions, although such subjective views were opposed to their principles. It only because that no absolute foundation of methodology has ever been given on the study of Modern Design. Such a complication caused the emergence of scepticism on the research, while the very arbitrary views could be authorised as well. A caution for such problems is the main purpose of the presentation of this essay, although it has no ambition to offer any total solution for them. Since no dogmatism of academic study gave help for the research, a gradually process of correction for problems but makes progress which do benefit the study.