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"… a synthetic view where two or more positions are seen to illuminate and to transfigure one another through their mutual presence."[19]
The knower alert to an aspect present in a single reality can question the other reality on this aspect. This aspect may be present in both, more blatant in one than in another. Its forms may be different or modified in each. It may be totally absent in one. Differences found may arouse or bring to consciousness other questions to ask of the data. This oscillating, dialectical process continues throughout reflection on the multiple realities. This indirect dialogue is recorded by the investigator as the complementary synthesis.
This synthesis is more than additive because it allows mutual representation and the illumination of one reality by another.
The fourth phase of this research methodology is like that phase of clinical nursing in which a nurse compares and synthesizes the similarities and differences of like nursing situations and arrives at an expanded view.
Phase V: Succession Within the Nurse From the Many to the Paradoxical
One
This phase of phenomenological nursology is highly probable if not absolutely necessary. Desan says:
"Truth emerges in and through the relational operation. For the
way of paradox is the way of truth."[20]
The investigator may struggle with the multiplicity of views now consciously part of and within herself. Again Desan:
"… this unrest "is" the mind of man, reaching its center….
From this center the splendor of multiplicity is visible."[21]