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|Question=When epistemic agent discover that a theory was accepted [[Error|erroneously]], they often reject the theory; the theory rejection theorem suggests that those propositions are replaced by something. What are they replaced by?

|Description=[[Error|Errors ]] are ubiquitous in scientific practice: scientists often come to realize that the acceptance of a certain theory was erroneous. This applies to both general theories and singular propositions describing the results of experiments and observations. The theory rejection theorem suggests that when these erroneously accepted theories become rejected they are still replaced by some other theory or theories. The question is: what are these erroneously accepted theories replaced by? For example, astronomical databases trivially reject inaccurate data points from their databases. Are these data points replaced by anything? More generally, how are instances of scientific error handled in science?