Cyrus Al-Zayadi

Cyrus Al-Zayadi is a Canadian scientonomist notable for his work on disciplines in scientonomic ontology.

Suggested Modifications

Here are all the modifications suggested by Al-Zayadi:

• Sciento-2021-0006: Accept new definitions of subquestion, core question, core theory, discipline, delineating theory, subdiscipline, and discipline acceptance. The modification was suggested to Scientonomy community by Paul Patton and Cyrus Al-Zayadi on 1 August 2021.1 The modification is currently being evaluated; a verdict is pending.

Theories

The following table contains all the theories formulated by Al-Zayadi:

Title	Type	Formulation	Formulated In
Subquestion (Patton-Al-Zayadi-2021)	Definition	A question Q is a subquestion of another question Q’, iff any direct answer to Q is also a partial answer to Q’.	2021
Core Question (Patton-Al-Zayadi-2021)	Definition	A core question of a discipline is a question identified in the discipline’s delineating theory as definitive of the discipline.	2021
Discipline Acceptance (Patton-Al-Zayadi-2021)	Definition	A discipline is said to be accepted by an epistemic agent if that agent accepts the core questions specified in the discipline’s delineating theory as well as the delineating theory itself.	2021
Subdiscipline (Patton-Al-Zayadi-2021)	Definition	A discipline A is a subdiscipline of another discipline B, iff the set of questions of A, QA, is a proper subset of the questions of B, QB, i.e. QA ⸦ QB.	2021
Delineating Theory (Patton-Al-Zayadi-2021)	Definition	A second-order theory identifying the set of core questions of a discipline.	2021
Discipline (Patton-Al-Zayadi-2021)	Definition	A discipline is characterized by (1) a non-empty set of core questions Q and (2) the delineating theory stating that Q are the core questions of the discipline.	2021
Core Theory (Patton-Al-Zayadi-2021)	Definition	A core theory of a discipline is a theory presupposed by the discipline’s core questions.	2021

Questions

Here are all the questions formulated by Al-Zayadi:

• Associations of Discipline Acceptance: How is the class of discipline acceptance associated with other classes (and itself)? What aggregation, composition, or other association relations can exist between discipline acceptances, as well as between a discipline acceptance and instances of other classes?
• Core Question: What is core question? How should it be defined?
• Core Theory: What is core theory? How should it be defined?
• Delineating Theory: What is delineating theory? How should it be defined?
• Discipline Acceptance: What is discipline acceptance? How should it be defined?
• Disjointness of Discipline Acceptance: What other classes is the class of discipline acceptance disjoint with, i.e. classes that don't share any instances with discipline acceptance?
• Existence of Discipline Acceptance: Does a discipline acceptance exist?
• Mechanism of Discipline Acceptance: What is the mechanism of discipline acceptance? How do disciplines become accepted?
• Mechanism of Discipline Rejection: What is the mechanism of discipline rejection? How do disciplines become rejected?
• Subdiscipline: What is subdiscipline? How should it be defined?
• Subquestion: What is subquestion? How should it be defined?
• Subtypes of Discipline Acceptance: What are the subtypes of a discipline acceptance?
• Supertypes of Discipline Acceptance: What are the supertypes of a discipline acceptance?
• Theories Shaping Core Questions: How do theories within a discipline shape and change the core questions of the disciplines?

Publications

Here are the works of Al-Zayadi included in the bibliographic records of this encyclopedia:

• Patton and Al-Zayadi (2021): Patton, Paul and Al-Zayadi, Cyrus. (2021) Disciplines in the Scientonomic Ontology. Scientonomy 4, 59-85. Retrieved from https://scientojournal.com/index.php/scientonomy/article/view/37123.

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