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|Question=What is the '''ontology''' of scientific change? What are the fundamental ''entities'', ''processes'', and ''relations'' involved in the process of scientific change?
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|Description=In the process of [[Mechanism of Scientific Change|scientific change]], we are dealing with different epistemic ''agents'', taking different epistemic ''stances'' towards different epistemic ''elements''. For instance, we can say that the Paris community of 1720 [[Theory Acceptance|accepted]] [[René Descartes|Cartesian natural philosophy]]. In this example, Paris community is the epistemic ''agent'', acceptance is their epistemic ''stance'', and Cartesian natural philosophy is the epistemic element. There are a number of important ontological questions that arise here:
* What types of [[Epistemic Agent|epistemic agents]] can there be? I.e. can epistemic agents be communal, individual and/or artificial (instruments, AI)?
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|Acceptance Indicators=The question was tacitly accepted even before its explicit formulation in 2017. Thus, it has the same acceptance date as the rest of the original TSC.
|Still Accepted=Yes
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