Changes

|Formulated Year=2015

|Description=Scientonomy accepts that both the theories and methods of science have changed over history, and differ across disciplines. It nonetheless denies the ‘nothing permanent thesis’ by positing that the fixed stable features of science take the form of the dynamics or laws that govern changes in theories and methods. It has identified a number of such laws of scientific change.

Although it is generally accepted that there seems to be no static transhistorical properties of science, this does not deny the possibility of laws governing the process of scientific change in a piecemeal fashion. Theories have, of course, proven themselves to be changeable. Methods of practicing and theory appraising have also proven to be changeable. The aims, goals and philosophies behind what science ought to be have also clearly changed. However, although a case can be made for these static properties of science to be non-permanent, perhaps the fundamental mechanism governing how these properties change can be permanent. Hence, the absence of static properties in science fails to show the impossibility of a general theory of scientific change.

There is the possibility of a mechanism of scientific change that governs the changes in theories, methods and other elements of science.

|Resource=Barseghyan (2015)

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