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] The researcher, mulling over and considering the relationships between the multiple views, insightfully corrects and expands her own angular view. This is not a right-wrong type of correction. Such correction would amount only to an ongoing eternal recurrence of a frustrating nature. Rather this correction takes the form of ever more inclusiveness. Struggling with the communion of the different ideas the knower takes an intuitive leap, through and yet beyond these ideas, into a greater understanding. She then may come up with a conception or abstraction that is inclusive of and beyond the multiplicities and contradictions. This inclusive conception or abstraction is an expression of the investigator in her here and now, with the old truths and the novel truths, none obliterated. {75} The fifth phase of this phenomenological nursology method can be equated to that phase of clinical professional nursing in which the nurse propels nursing knowledge forward. In this phase a nurse struggling with the mutual communion of multiple nursing situations arrives at a conception that is meaningful to the many or to all. From the specific concrete ideas of the many situations she moves through dilemma to resolution which is nursing expressed abstractly in units or as a whole, as one. Experiential knowledge of nursing, years in which I came to know self and the other while implementing scientific facts, allowed me as a knower to recognize the relevance of this philosophical nursology method. This method does not aim at conventionality. Rather it strives to meaningfully augment and share conceptualized nurse-world realities. FOOTNOTES: [1] Josephine G. Paterson, "Echo into Tomorrow: A Mental Health Psychiatric Philosophical Conceptualization of Nursing" D.N.Sc. dissertation, Boston University, 1969. [2] Josephine G. Paterson "From a Philosophy of Clinical Nursing to a Method of Nursology," _Nursing Research_, Vol. XX (March-April, 1971), pp. 143-146. [3] Abraham Kaplan, _Conduct of Inquiry_ (San Francisco: Chandler Publishing Co., 1964), p. 23.