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{{Definitional Topic
|Singular Capitalized=
|Plural Capitalized=Scientific Mosaics
|Singular Lowercase=scientific mosaic
|Plural Lowercase=scientific mosaics
|Indefinite Article=a
|Question=What is '''scientific mosaic'''? How should it be ''defined''?
|Description=''Scientific mosaic'' is one of the key concepts in current scientonomy. Thus, its proper definition is of great importance.
|Authors List=Hakob Barseghyan,
|Formulated Year=2015
|Prehistory=Although almost all of the great philosophers of science of the 20th century have described the history of science in terms of a changing, systematic collection of beliefs, there has never been a real consensus in the language used to describe such a collection. [[Thomas Kuhn]] used the word ''paradigm'' to talk of integrated collections of theories, methods, and values that were replaced during episodes of revolutionary scientific change.[[CiteRef::Bird (2011)]][[CiteRef::Kuhn (1962a)]] [[Imre Lakatos]] described a set of propositions as fitting into a scientific ''research programme'';[[CiteRef::Lakatos (1978a)]] [[Larry Laudan]] used the concept of ''research tradition''.[[CiteRef::Matheson and Dallmann (2015)]][[CiteRef::Laudan (1984a)]] Richard DeWitt talks of ''worldviews'' to describe the beliefs held by a scientific community at any given time.[[CiteRef::DeWitt (2010)|p. 7]]
With the acceptance of [[William Rawleigh|Rawleigh]]'s new ontology of epistemic elements which added questions as a new [[Question Is a Subtype of Epistemic Element (Rawleigh-2018)|type of epistemic element]], it became apparent that the definition of scientific mosaic should be adjusted to include questions.[[CiteRef::Rawleigh (2018)]] [[Scientific Mosaic (Barseghyan-2018)|One such definition]] was suggested by Barseghyan in his [[Barseghyan (2018)|"Redrafting the Ontology of Scientific Change"]].[[CiteRef::Barseghyan (2018)]] The new definition became [[Modification:Sciento-2018-0009|became accepted]] in 2020. As this definition does not refer to any epistemic elements explicitly, it is in principle compatible with any future ontology insofar as that ontology involves the notions of ''acceptance'' and ''employment''.
|Current View=|Related Topics=Employed Method, Mechanism of Scientific Change, Theory, Method, Mechanism of Scientific Change, Employed MethodTheory, Theory Acceptance,|Sorting Order=
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|Acceptance Indicators=This is when the community accepted its first definition of the term, [[Scientific Mosaic (2015)]], which indicates that the question is itself considered legitimate.
|Still Accepted=Yes
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