**6. Conclusions**

In this paper, we propose a comprehensive "Worldview Inquiry Framework" that can be used across research contexts where knowledge of worldviews is important. We discuss the systemicity of worldviews, and explain how this can help practitioners to find the roots of differences between stakeholders' perspectives. We propose a generalization of the Worldview Inquiry Framework to produce a "General Inquiry Framework" that can be used to guide an inquiry process in other contexts and illustrate how the general inquiry questions can be tailored for contexts such as worldview analysis, problem solving, product design, and fundamental research.

**Author Contributions:** The project was conceived and managed by D.R. J.B and D.R. contributed equally to the research and writing of the text. D.R. drew the diagrams.

**Funding:** Financial and material support for the project was provided by the Centre for Systems Philosophy, INCOSE and the University of Hull's Centre for Systems Studies.

**Acknowledgments:** We would like to thank Javier Calvo-Amodio and the attendees of our workshops and seminar events for useful discussions in developing the arguments presented in this paper. We are also grateful to two anonymous reviewers of this paper for their helpful comments, which have greatly aided us in improving the structure and clarity of this paper.

**Conflicts of Interest:** The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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