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|Description=Imagine a community which takes all of its scientific knowledge from a giant manuscript. Is the community [[Authority Delegation|delegating authority]] to the long-dead writers of this manuscript, or are they delegating to the book itself? When scientists use an instrument in an experiment, who are they delegating authority to? Standard research practice says that when using an instrument in an experiment, the scientist should cite the manufacturers of the instrument in their research paper. Does this indicate that authority is being delegated to the manufacturers rather than the tool itself? If authority can be delegated to a material object, does this mean that the object is a bearer of a [[Scientific Mosaic (Barseghyan-2015)|mosaic]]? In addition, it seems as though that at times a community can delegate authority to instruments such as the software that analyzes the results of telescopic observations in order to locate exoplanets. The community customarily accepts the results of this analysis. Does this mean that authority is being delegated to computer software?

|Parent Topic=Epistemic Agents

|Formulated Year=2016

|Page Status=Needs Editing

|Editor Notes=Perhaps some prehistory would be nice

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|VideoDescription=Nicholas Overgaard explains the topic

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|Community=Community:Scientonomy

|Accepted From Year=2016

|Accepted From Month=April

|Acceptance Indicators=It was acknowledged as an open question by the [[Scientonomy Seminar 2016]].

|Still Accepted=Yes

|Accepted Until Approximate=No

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