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Theory Pursuit (Barseghyan-2015) (view source)
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This is not always the case. In the 19th century, Newtonian physics was accepted, pursued, and used. Not only did scientists believe that Newtonian physics was the best available theory to describe reality, they also thought that they could further elaborate the theory. For instance, after Newtonian physics was widely accepted, geometrical optics was developed as a further elaboration of Newtonian physics. Not only that, Newtonian physics had and still has use values in real-life situations, such as used as tools for engineering practices such as building bridges or launching satellites. It may be argued that by using a theory, it is still pursued in practical disciplines such as engineering.
|Resource=Barseghyan (2015)
|Prehistory=Although past most philosophers of science in the past did not make clear distinctions between pursued theories and accepted theories, it is also not new to distinguish pursued theories and accepted theories. Many historians and philosophers agreed that certain theories may have potential developmental values, but it does not mean that they are accepted as the best available theory. Some of them formulated the idea of pursued theories before the establishment of scientonomy.
Ideas that tried to distinguish pursued theories and accepted theories can be found in works by [[David Hume]], [[Imre Lakatos]], [[Larry Laudan]] and [[Stephen Wykstra]].
