Accidental Group Is a Subtype of Group (Overgaard-2017)

This is a theory that states "Accidental Group is a subtype of Group, i.e. group is a supertype of accidental group."

Accidental Group Is a Subtype of Group (Overgaard-2017) was formulated by Nicholas Overgaard in 2017.1 It is currently accepted by Scientonomy community as the best available answer to the question.

Scientonomic History

Acceptance Record

Here is the complete acceptance record of Accidental Group Is a Subtype of Group (Overgaard-2017):

Community	Accepted From	Acceptance Indicators	Still Accepted	Accepted Until	Rejection Indicators
Scientonomy	2 February 2018	The association became de facto accepted with the acceptance of the respective modification.	Yes

Suggestions To Accept

Here are all the modifications where the acceptance of this theory has been suggested:

Modification	Community	Date Suggested	Summary	Date Assessed	Verdict	Verdict Rationale
Sciento-2017-0012	Scientonomy	19 May 2017	Accept a new taxonomy for group and its two sub-types - accidental group, and community.	2 February 2018	Accepted	A consensus has emerged after a long discussion that the distinction and the respective definitions should be accepted. It was noted that "these formulations tend to be the starting point for so many of our discussions"c1 and that "despite all disagreements that this taxonomy causes, it is actually accepted by the community".c2 Yet, it was also indicated that whereas the definition of group as "two or more people that share a characteristic" is the best we have at the moment, it may be potentially necessary to pursue the idea of redefining it as "one or more people..." to allow for one-scientist communities.c3 Finally, while a question was raised whether there is any "value in defining accidental groups as something separate from groups",c4 it was eventually agreed that it is important to draw "a clear distinction between the two kinds of groups as accidental groups and communities".c5

Questions Answered

Accidental Group Is a Subtype of Group (Overgaard-2017) is an attempt to answer the following questions: Supertypes of Accidental Group and Subtypes of Group.

Description

Overgaard differentiates between groups that do and do not have a collective intentionality; the former are communities, the latter are accidental groups.1

Reasons

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