Possibility of Scientonomy - Preconditions

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Under which conditions do the patterns of scientific change emerge and hold?

The existence of the patterns of scientific change seem to presuppose certain social, political, cultural, and economic conditions, "such as relative stability, supportive educational system, certain degree of autonomy from regime etc."1p. 88 What are the necessary preconditions that make the patterns of scientific change possible?

In the scientonomic context, this question was first formulated by Sinan Karamehmetoglu in 2018. The question is currently accepted as a legitimate topic for discussion by Scientonomy community.

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  • Scientonomy is possible because the process of scientific change exhibits lawful general regularities.

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Possibility of Scientonomy (Barseghyan-2015) states: "Scientonomy is possible because the process of scientific change exhibits lawful general regularities."

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References

  1. ^  Barseghyan, Hakob. (2015) The Laws of Scientific Change. Springer.