Community:Scientonomy

This scientonomic community was initially formed at the IHPST, University of Toronto around the time of the publication of Barseghyan's The Laws of Scientific Change with the main goal of establishing a proper science of science, scientonomy. The community publishes the Journal of Scientonomy, edits the Encyclopedia of Scientonomy, runs scientonomic seminars and workshops.

The community was established in 2015.

History

In the years preceding the publication of The Laws of Scientific Change1 (2012-2015), the community would mostly gather during winter seminar sessions.

In 2015, the community has started working on the establishment of a proper science of science, Scientonomy.

To that end, the community launched the first Encyclopedia of Scientonomy early in 2016. The aim of this encyclopedia is to track the current state of our knowledge on the process of scientific change, trace and appraise all the proposed modifications, as well as to list all the open questions.

In September of 2016, the community launched the Journal of Scientonomy which aims at publishing original research in the field and collecting all the proposed modifications.

The community's general annual meeting is usually on the first Friday of the winter semester at the University of Toronto. TODO: embed videos of the 2015 and 2016 meetings.

Road-map

The roadmap of the community includes:

Organizing annual workshops with the aim of discussing and those proposed modification which didn't yield a common verdict.
Launching a pilot tree of knowledge project to develop a schema for a historical database, design a respective user interface, as well as to fill that pilot database with some historical data to show how the whole system can actually work.
A full-fledged tree of knowledge website and a comprehensive historical database that would eventually include the theories and methods of all historical mosaics.

Current Mosaic

Accepted Topics

Definitional Topics

This is the list of all definitional questions that this community currently accepts as legitimate topics for discussion:

Descriptive Topics

Here is the semantic tree of all the descriptive questions that this community currently accepts as legitimate topics for discussion:

Normative Topics

Here is the semantic tree of all the normative questions that this community currently accepts as legitimate topics for discussion:

Accepted Theories

Definitions and Ontology

Here is the summary of the ontology and definitions currently accepted by the community:

Term	Definition	Upper Class	Existence	Subtypes	Supertypes	Associations
Acceptance Criteria	Acceptance Criteria (Barseghyan-2015): Criteria for determining whether a theory is acceptable or unacceptable.	Endurant	Exists			An acceptance criterion is always part of some method.
Accidental Group	Accidental Group (Overgaard-2017): A group that does not have a collective intentionality.	Endurant	Exists		Group
Authority Delegation	Authority Delegation (Patton-2019): Epistemic agent A is said to be delegating authority over question x to epistemic agent B iff (1) agent A accepts that agent B is an expert on question x and (2) agent A will accept a theory answering question x if agent B says so.	Association	Exists	On the basis of cardinality: Singular Authority Delegation and Multiple Authority Delegation. On the basis of reciprocity: Mutual Authority Delegation and One-sided Authority Delegation.
Community	Community (Overgaard-2017): A group that has a collective intentionality.	Endurant	Exists		Group	A community can delegate authority to another community.
Compatibility	Compatibility (Fraser-Sarwar-2018): The ability of two elements to coexist in the same mosaic.	Perdurant	Exists		Epistemic Stance
Compatibility Criteria	Compatibility Criteria (Fraser-Sarwar-2018): Criteria for determining whether two elements are compatible or incompatible.	Endurant	Exists			A compatibility criterion is always part of some method.
Core Question	Core Question (Patton-Al-Zayadi-2021): A core question of a discipline is a question identified in the discipline’s delineating theory as definitive of the discipline.	Endurant	Exists
Core Theory	Core Theory (Patton-Al-Zayadi-2021): A core theory of a discipline is a theory presupposed by the discipline’s core questions.	Endurant	Exists
Definition	Definition (Barseghyan-2018): A statement of the meaning of a term.	Endurant	Exists		Theory
Delineating Theory	Delineating Theory (Patton-Al-Zayadi-2021): A second-order theory identifying the set of core questions of a discipline.	Endurant	Exists			A discipline has one delineating theory.
Demarcation Criteria	Demarcation Criteria (Barseghyan-2015): Criteria for determining whether a theory is scientific or unscientific.	Endurant	Exists			A demarcation criterion is always part of some method.
Descriptive Theory	Descriptive Theory (Sebastien-2016): A set of propositions that attempts to describe something.	Endurant	Exists		Theory
Discipline	Discipline (Patton-Al-Zayadi-2021): A discipline is characterized by (1) a non-empty set of core questions Q and (2) the delineating theory stating that Q are the core questions of the discipline.	Endurant	Exists			A discipline can have any number of theories. Each theory can be included into any number disciplines. A discipline has at least one core question. A discipline has one delineating theory. A discipline has at least one question. Each question can be included in any number disciplines.
Discipline Acceptance	Discipline Acceptance (Patton-Al-Zayadi-2021): A discipline is said to be accepted by an epistemic agent if that agent accepts the core questions specified in the discipline’s delineating theory as well as the delineating theory itself.	Perdurant	Exists
Element Decay		Perdurant		Theory Decay
Epistemic Action		Perdurant
Epistemic Agent	Epistemic Agent (Patton-2019): An agent capable of taking epistemic stances towards epistemic elements.	Endurant	Exists	Epistemic Community and Individual Epistemic Agent		An epistemic agent can delegate authority to another epistemic agent.
Epistemic Community		Endurant	Exists		Epistemic Agent
Epistemic Element		Endurant	Exists	Question and Theory
Epistemic Presupposition	Epistemic Presupposition (Barseghyan-Levesley-2021): A theory is said to be an epistemic presupposition of a question for some agent, iff the agent accepts that accepting any direct answer to the question will necessitate accepting the theory.	Association	Exists
Epistemic Stance		Perdurant	Exists	Theory Use, Theory Pursuit, Question Acceptance, Norm Employment, Compatibility and Theory Acceptance
Error	Error (Machado-Marques-Patton-2021): An epistemic agent is said to commit an error if the agent accepts a theory that should not have been accepted given that agent’s employed method.	Perdurant	Exists
Explicable-Implicit	Explicable-Implicit (Mirkin-Barseghyan-2018): Propositional knowledge that hasn’t been openly formulated by the agent.	Quality			Implicit
Explicit	Explicit (Mirkin-Barseghyan-2018): Propositional knowledge that has been openly formulated by the agent.	Quality
Global Epistemic Action		Perdurant
Group	Group (Overgaard-2017): Two or more people who share any characteristic.	Endurant	Exists	Community and Accidental Group
Hierarchical Authority Delegation	Hierarchical Authority Delegation (Patton-2019): A sub-type of multiple authority delegation where different epistemic agents are delegated different degrees of authority over question x.	Association	Exists		Multiple Authority Delegation
History of Scientific Change	History of Scientific Change (Barseghyan-2015): A descriptive discipline that attempts to trace and explain individual changes in the scientific mosaic.	Endurant
Implicit	Implicit (Mirkin-Barseghyan-2018): Not explicit.	Quality		Explicable-Implicit and Inexplicable
Individual Epistemic Agent		Endurant	Exists		Epistemic Agent
Individual Level	Individual Level (Barseghyan-2015): The level of the beliefs of the individual scientist about the world and the rules she employs in theory assessment.	Endurant
Inexplicable	Inexplicable (Mirkin-Barseghyan-2018): Non-propositional knowledge, i.e. knowledge that cannot, even in principle, be formulated as a set of propositions.	Quality			Implicit
Local Action Availability		Endurant
Local Epistemic Action		Perdurant
Logical Presupposition	Logical Presupposition (Barseghyan-Levesley-2021): A theory is said to be a logical presupposition of a question, iff the theory is logically entailed by any direct answer to the question.	Association	Exists
Method	Method (Barseghyan-2018): A set of criteria for theory evaluation.	Endurant	Exists	Substantive Method and Procedural Method	Normative Theory	An acceptance criterion is always part of some method. A compatibility criterion is always part of some method. A demarcation criterion is always part of some method.
Method Hierarchy		Endurant
Methodology	Methodology (Barseghyan-2018): A normative discipline that formulates the rules which ought to be employed in theory assessment.	Endurant	Exists
Model		Endurant
Mosaic Merge	Mosaic Merge (Barseghyan-2015): A scientific change where two mosaics turn into one united mosaic.	Endurant	Exists
Mosaic Split	Mosaic Split (Barseghyan-2015): A scientific change where one mosaic transforms into two or more mosaics.	Perdurant	Exists
Multiple Authority Delegation	Multiple Authority Delegation (Patton-2019): Epistemic agent A is said to engage in a relationship of multiple authority delegation over question x iff A delegates authority over question x to more than one epistemic agent.	Association	Exists	Hierarchical Authority Delegation and Non-Hierarchical Authority Delegation	Authority Delegation
Mutual Authority Delegation	Mutual Authority Delegation (Patton-2019): Epistemic agents A and B are said to be in a relationship of mutual authority delegation iff A delegates authority over question x to B, and B delegates authority over question y to A.	Association	Exists		Authority Delegation
Non-Epistemic Community		Endurant
Non-Hierarchical Authority Delegation	Non-Hierarchical Authority Delegation (Patton-2019): A sub-type of multiple authority delegation where different epistemic agents are delegated the same degree of authority over question x.	Association	Exists		Multiple Authority Delegation
Norm Employment	Norm Employment (Barseghyan-2018): A norm is said to be employed if its requirements constitute the actual expectations of an epistemic agent.	Perdurant	Exists		Epistemic Stance
Normative Theory	Normative Theory (Sebastien-2016): A set of propositions that attempts to prescribe something.	Endurant	Exists	Method	Theory
One-sided Authority Delegation	One-sided Authority Delegation (Patton-2019): Epistemic agents A and B are said to be in a relationship of one-sided authority delegation iff A delegates authority over question x to B, but B doesn’t delegate any authority to A.	Association	Exists		Authority Delegation
Outcome Inconclusive	Outcome Inconclusive (Patton-Overgaard-Barseghyan-2017): It is unclear whether or not the requirements of the method employed at the time are met.	Quality
Outcome Not Satisfied	Outcome Not Satisfied (Patton-Overgaard-Barseghyan-2017): The theory is deemed to conclusively not meet the requirements of the method employed at the time.	Quality
Outcome Satisfied	Outcome Satisfied (Patton-Overgaard-Barseghyan-2017): The theory is deemed to conclusively meet the requirements of the method employed at the time.	Quality
Procedural Method	Procedural Method (Barseghyan-2015): A method which doesn't presuppose any contingent propositions.	Endurant	Exists		Method
Question	Question (Rawleigh-2018): A topic of inquiry.	Endurant	Exists		Epistemic Element	A discipline has at least one core question. A discipline has at least one question. Each question can be included in any number disciplines. A question can have subquestions. A question can presuppose theories. A theory is an answer to a question.
Question Acceptance	Question Acceptance (Rawleigh-2018): A question is said to be accepted if it is taken as a legitimate topic of inquiry.	Perdurant	Exists		Epistemic Stance
Question Pursuit		Perdurant
Reason		Endurant
Scientific Change	Scientific Change (Barseghyan-2015): Any change in the scientific mosaic, i.e. a transition from one accepted theory to another or from one employed method to another.	Perdurant	Exists
Scientific Community		Endurant	Exists
Scientific Mosaic	Scientific Mosaic (Rawleigh-2022): A model of all epistemic elements accepted or employed by the epistemic agent.	Endurant	Exists
Scientonomy	Scientonomy (Barseghyan-2015): A descriptive discipline that attempts to uncover the actual general mechanism of scientific change.	Endurant	Exists
Singular Authority Delegation	Singular Authority Delegation (Patton-2019): Epistemic agent A is said to engage in a relationship of singular authority delegation over question x iff A delegates authority over question x to exactly one epistemic agent.	Association	Exists		Authority Delegation
Social Level	Social Level (Barseghyan-2015): The level of the scientific community and its mosaic of accepted theories and employed methods.	Endurant
Sociocultural Factors		Endurant	Exists
Subdiscipline	Subdiscipline (Patton-Al-Zayadi-2021): A discipline A is a subdiscipline of another discipline B, iff the set of questions of A, Q_A, is a proper subset of the questions of B, Q_B, i.e. Q_A ⸦ Q_B.	Endurant	Exists
Subquestion	Subquestion (Patton-Al-Zayadi-2021): A question Q is a subquestion of another question Q’, iff any direct answer to Q is also a partial answer to Q’.	Association	Exists
Substantive Method	Substantive Method (Barseghyan-2015): A method which presupposes at least one contingent proposition.	Endurant	Exists		Method
Theory	Theory (Sebastien-2016): A set of propositions.	Endurant	Exists	Normative Theory, Descriptive Theory and Definition	Epistemic Element	A discipline can have any number of theories. Each theory can be included into any number disciplines. A question can presuppose theories. A theory is an answer to a question.
Theory Acceptance	Theory Acceptance (Barseghyan-2018): A theory is said to be accepted by an epistemic agent if it is taken as the best available answer to its respective question.	Perdurant	Exists		Epistemic Stance
Theory Decay		Perdurant			Element Decay
Theory Pursuit	Theory Pursuit (Barseghyan-2015): A theory is said to be pursued if it is considered worthy of further development.	Perdurant	Exists		Epistemic Stance
Theory Use	Theory Use (Barseghyan-2015): A theory is said to be used if it is taken as an adequate tool for practical application.	Perdurant	Exists		Epistemic Stance

Dynamics

These are all the descriptive topics with their respective theories currently accepted by the community:

Topic	Accepted Answer	Answer's Formulation	Answer Type
Accepted Methodology and Theory Pursuit			None
Applicability of Scientonomy to Theories as Models			None
Applicability of the Laws of Scientific Change to Individuals			None
Applicability of the Laws of Scientific Change			None
Application of Scientonomy to Other Fields			None
Application of Scientonomy to Philosophy of Science			None
Changeability of the Scientific Mosaic	Dogmatism No Theory Change theorem (Barseghyan-2015)	If an accepted theory is taken as the final truth, it will always remain accepted; no new theory on the subject can ever be accepted.	Complete
Compatibility of Mosaic Elements	Compatibility Corollary (Fraser-Sarwar-2018)	At any moment of time, the elements of the scientific mosaic are compatible with each other.	Complete
Conclusive Theory Assessment			None
Deducibility in Method Employment			None
Delegation of Authority to Artifacts			None
Delegation of Authority to Individuals			None
Delegation of Authority to Past Communities			None
Deriving Methods from an Empty Set			None
Determinism vs. Underdeterminism in Scientific Change	Underdetermined Method Change theorem (Barseghyan-2015) Underdetermined Theory Change theorem (Barseghyan-2015) Scientific Underdeterminism theorem (Barseghyan-2015)	Transitions from one state of the mosaic to another are not necessarily deterministic. Scientific change is not a strictly deterministic process. The process of method change is not necessarily deterministic: employed methods are by no means the only possible implementations of abstract requirements. The process of theory change is not necessarily deterministic: there may be cases when both a theory's acceptance and its unacceptance are equally possible.	Complete
Existence of Method Hierarchies			None
Hierarchy of Theories			None
Implementation vs. Employment of Methods			None
Indicators of Inconclusiveness			None
Mechanism of Compatibility	The Law of Compatibility (Fraser-Sarwar-2018)	If a pair of elements satisfies the compatibility criteria employed at the time, it becomes compatible within the mosaic; if it does not, it is deemed incompatible; and if assessment is inconclusive, the pair can become compatible, incompatible, or its status may be unknown.	Complete
Mechanism of Discipline Acceptance			None
Mechanism of Discipline Rejection			None
Mechanism of Error Rejection	Error Rejection by Replacement (Machado-Marques-Patton-2021)	The handling of instances of scientific error is consistent with the theory rejection theorem; it involves a replacement of an erroneously accepted theory either with a first- or second-order proposition.	Complete
Mechanism of Method Employment	The Law of Method Employment (Rawleigh-2022)	A method becomes employed only if it is derivable from a non-empty subset of other elements of the mosaic.	Complete
Mechanism of Method Rejection	Synchronism of Method Rejection theorem (Barseghyan-2015)	A method becomes rejected only when some of the theories, from which it follows, also become rejected.	Partial
Mechanism of Mosaic Split	Necessary Mosaic Split theorem (Barseghyan-2015) Possible Mosaic Split theorem (Barseghyan-2015) Split Due to Inconclusiveness theorem (Barseghyan-2015)	When two mutually incompatible theories satisfy the requirements of the current method, the mosaic necessarily splits in two. When a theory assessment outcome is inconclusive, a mosaic split is possible. When a mosaic split is a result of the acceptance of only one theory, it can only be a result of inconclusive theory assessment.	Complete
Mechanism of Norm Employment	The Law of Norm Employment (Rawleigh-2022)	A norm becomes employed only if it is derivable from a non-empty subset of other elements of the mosaic.	Complete
Mechanism of Normative Theory Rejection	Norm Rejection theorem (Pandey-2023)	A norm becomes rejected when other elements that are incompatible with the norm become part of the mosaic.	Complete
Mechanism of Question Rejection	Question Rejection theorem (Barseghyan-Levesley-Pandey-2023)	A question becomes rejected when other elements that are incompatible with the question become part of the mosaic.	Complete
Mechanism of Scientific Change	Methodology Can Shape Method theorem (Barseghyan-2015)	A methodology can shape employed methods, but only if its requirements implement abstract requirements of some other employed method.	Partial
Mechanism of Scientific Change	The Law of Norm Employment (Rawleigh-2022)	A norm becomes employed only if it is derivable from a non-empty subset of other elements of the mosaic.	Partial
Mechanism of Scientific Change	The Law of Compatibility (Fraser-Sarwar-2018)	If a pair of elements satisfies the compatibility criteria employed at the time, it becomes compatible within the mosaic; if it does not, it is deemed incompatible; and if assessment is inconclusive, the pair can become compatible, incompatible, or its status may be unknown.	Partial
Mechanism of Scientific Change	Synchronism of Method Rejection theorem (Barseghyan-2015)	A method becomes rejected only when some of the theories, from which it follows, also become rejected.	Partial
Mechanism of Scientific Change	Necessary Mosaic Split theorem (Barseghyan-2015) Possible Mosaic Split theorem (Barseghyan-2015) Split Due to Inconclusiveness theorem (Barseghyan-2015)	When two mutually incompatible theories satisfy the requirements of the current method, the mosaic necessarily splits in two. When a theory assessment outcome is inconclusive, a mosaic split is possible. When a mosaic split is a result of the acceptance of only one theory, it can only be a result of inconclusive theory assessment.	Partial
Mechanism of Scientific Change	Underdetermined Method Change theorem (Barseghyan-2015) Underdetermined Theory Change theorem (Barseghyan-2015) Scientific Underdeterminism theorem (Barseghyan-2015)	Transitions from one state of the mosaic to another are not necessarily deterministic. Scientific change is not a strictly deterministic process. The process of method change is not necessarily deterministic: employed methods are by no means the only possible implementations of abstract requirements. The process of theory change is not necessarily deterministic: there may be cases when both a theory's acceptance and its unacceptance are equally possible.	Partial
Mechanism of Scientific Change	Question Rejection theorem (Barseghyan-Levesley-Pandey-2023)	A question becomes rejected when other elements that are incompatible with the question become part of the mosaic.	Partial
Mechanism of Scientific Change	The First Law (Barseghyan-2015)	An element of the mosaic remains in the mosaic unless replaced by other elements.	Partial
Mechanism of Scientific Change	The Second Law (Patton-Overgaard-Barseghyan-2017)	If a theory satisfies the acceptance criteria of the method employed at the time, it becomes accepted into the mosaic; if it does not, it remains unaccepted; if assessment is inconclusive, the theory can be accepted or not accepted.	Partial
Mechanism of Scientific Change	Theory Rejection theorem (Barseghyan-Pandey-2023)	A theory becomes rejected when other elements that are incompatible with the theory become part of the mosaic.	Partial
Mechanism of Scientific Change	Sociocultural Factors in Theory Acceptance theorem (Barseghyan-2015)	Sociocultural factors can affect the process of theory acceptance insofar as it is permitted by the method employed at the time.	Partial
Mechanism of Scientific Change	Dogmatism No Theory Change theorem (Barseghyan-2015)	If an accepted theory is taken as the final truth, it will always remain accepted; no new theory on the subject can ever be accepted.	Partial
Mechanism of Scientific Inertia for Epistemic Elements	The First Law (Barseghyan-2015)	An element of the mosaic remains in the mosaic unless replaced by other elements.	Complete
Mechanism of Scientific Inertia for Methods			None
Mechanism of Scientific Inertia for Normative Theories	The First Law for Norms (Barseghyan-Pandey-2023)	An employed norm remains employed in the mosaic unless replaced by other elements.	Complete
Mechanism of Scientific Inertia for Questions	The First Law for Questions (Barseghyan-Levesley-2021)	An accepted question remains accepted in the mosaic unless replaced by other elements.	Complete
Mechanism of Scientific Inertia for Theories	The First Law for Theories (Barseghyan-Pandey-2023)	An accepted theory remains accepted in the mosaic unless replaced by other elements.	Complete
Mechanism of Theory Acceptance	The Second Law (Patton-Overgaard-Barseghyan-2017)	If a theory satisfies the acceptance criteria of the method employed at the time, it becomes accepted into the mosaic; if it does not, it remains unaccepted; if assessment is inconclusive, the theory can be accepted or not accepted.	Complete
Mechanism of Theory Pursuit			None
Mechanism of Theory Rejection	Theory Rejection theorem (Barseghyan-Pandey-2023)	A theory becomes rejected when other elements that are incompatible with the theory become part of the mosaic.	Complete
Methodology and Methods			None
Methods Shaping Theory Construction			None
Methods and Technical Research Tools			None
Necessary Descriptive Theories			None
Necessary Epistemic Elements	Necessary Method theorem (Barseghyan-2015)	In order for the process of scientific change to be possible, the mosaic must necessarily contain at least one employed method.	Partial
Necessary Logic			None
Necessary Methods	Necessary Method theorem (Barseghyan-2015)	In order for the process of scientific change to be possible, the mosaic must necessarily contain at least one employed method.	Complete
Necessary Normative Theories	Necessary Method theorem (Barseghyan-2015)	In order for the process of scientific change to be possible, the mosaic must necessarily contain at least one employed method.	Partial
Necessary Questions			None
Necessary Theories	Necessary Method theorem (Barseghyan-2015)	In order for the process of scientific change to be possible, the mosaic must necessarily contain at least one employed method.	Partial
Normative Effects of Scientonomy			None
Ontology of Scientific Change	Theory Assessment Outcomes (Patton-Overgaard-Barseghyan-2017)	The possible outcomes of theory assessment are satisfied, not satisfied, and inconclusive.	Partial
Philosophy of Science - Demarcation			None
Philosophy of Science - Relativism			None
Philosophy of Science - Scientific Progress			None
Possibility of Scientonomy - Argument from Bad Track Record	Response to the Argument from Bad Track Record (Barseghyan-2015)	The failures of past theories of scientific change do not imply the inevitability of future failure or that the enterprise in inherently unsound.	Complete
Possibility of Scientonomy - Argument from Changeability of Scientific Method	Response to the Argument from Changeability of Scientific Method (Barseghyan-2015)	Scientonomy does not postulate the existence of a universal and unchanging method of science; thus the fact that methods of science are changeable is not detrimental to the prospects of scientonomy.	Complete
Possibility of Scientonomy - Preconditions			None
Possibility of Scientonomy - The Argument from Nothing Permanent	Response to the Argument from Nothing Permanent (Barseghyan-2015)	If there were indeed nothing permanent in science, then scientonomy would be impossible, however, scientonomy posits only that there are regularities in the process of scientific change.	Complete
Possibility of Scientonomy - The Argument from Social Construction	Response to the Argument from Social Construction (Barseghyan-2015)	Science can be said to be socially constructed in several different senses (e.g. the contingency, nominalist, and reducibility theses). None of these preclude the possibility of scientonomy.	Complete
Possibility of Scientonomy	Possibility of Scientonomy (Barseghyan-2015)	Scientonomy is possible because the process of scientific change exhibits lawful general regularities.	Complete
Pursuit and Acceptance			None
Pursuit as Acceptance	Pursuit as Distinct from Acceptance (Barseghyan-2015)	Pursuit is a distinct epistemic stance that is not reducible to or expressible through acceptance.	Complete
Role of Employed Methods in Question Acceptance			None
Role of Ethics in Scientific Change			None
Role of Methodology in Scientific Change	Methodology Can Shape Method theorem (Barseghyan-2015)	A methodology can shape employed methods, but only if its requirements implement abstract requirements of some other employed method.	Complete
Role of Non-Social and Environmental Factors in Scientific Change			None
Role of Practical Considerations in Scientific Change			None
Role of Sociocultural Factors in Method Employment			None
Role of Sociocultural Factors in Mosaic Split			None
Role of Sociocultural Factors in Question Acceptance			None
Role of Sociocultural Factors in Scientific Change	Sociocultural Factors in Theory Acceptance theorem (Barseghyan-2015)	Sociocultural factors can affect the process of theory acceptance insofar as it is permitted by the method employed at the time.	Partial
Role of Sociocultural Factors in Theory Acceptance	Sociocultural Factors in Theory Acceptance theorem (Barseghyan-2015)	Sociocultural factors can affect the process of theory acceptance insofar as it is permitted by the method employed at the time.	Complete
Role of Used Theories in Method Employment			None
Static vs. Dynamic Methods	Dynamic Substantive Methods theorem (Barseghyan-2015) Static Procedural Methods theorem (Barseghyan-2015)	All substantive methods are necessarily dynamic. All procedural methods are necessarily static.	Complete
Status of Impossible Abstract Requirements			None
Status of Reasons			None
Status of Tacit Theories			None
Status of Technological Knowledge	Technological Knowledge as Part of Mosaic (Mirkin-2018)	Propositional technological knowledge can be accepted and be part of a mosaic.	Complete
Synchronism vs. Asynchronism of Method Employment	Asynchronism of Method Employment theorem (Barseghyan-2015)	The employment of new methods can be but is not necessarily a result of the acceptance of new theories.	Complete
Synchronism vs. Asynchronism of Method Rejection	Synchronism of Method Rejection theorem (Barseghyan-2015)	A method becomes rejected only when some of the theories, from which it follows, also become rejected.	Complete
Tautological Status of Method Rejection theorem (Barseghyan-2015)			None
Tautological Status of Norm Rejection theorem (Pandey-2023)			None
Tautological Status of Question Rejection theorem (Barseghyan-Levesley-2021)			None
Tautological Status of Question Rejection theorem (Barseghyan-Levesley-Pandey-2023)			None
Tautological Status of The First Law (Barseghyan-2015)			None
Tautological Status of The First Law for Methods (Barseghyan-2015)			None
Tautological Status of The First Law for Norms (Barseghyan-Pandey-2023)			None
Tautological Status of The First Law for Questions (Barseghyan-Pandey-2023)			None
Tautological Status of The First Law for Theories (Barseghyan-2015)			None
Tautological Status of The First Law for Theories (Barseghyan-Pandey-2023)			None
Tautological Status of The Law of Compatibility (Fraser-Sarwar-2018)	The Law of Compatibility (Fraser-Sarwar-2018) is Not Tautological (Fraser-Sarwar-2018)	The law of compatibility suggested by Fraser and Sarwar in 2018 is not tautological.	Complete
Tautological Status of The Law of Theory Demarcation (Sarwar-Fraser-2018)			None
Tautological Status of The Second Law (Barseghyan-2015)	The Second Law (Barseghyan-2015) is Tautological (Barseghyan-2015)	Barseghyan's original second law is tautological.	Complete
Tautological Status of The Second Law (Patton-Overgaard-Barseghyan-2017)	The Second Law (Patton-Overgaard-Barseghyan-2017) is Not Tautological (Patton-Overgaard-Barseghyan-2017)	The second law suggested by Patton, Overgaard, and Barseghyan in 2017 is not tautological.	Complete
Tautological Status of The Zeroth Law (Harder-2015)	The Zeroth Law (Harder-2015) is Tautological (Fraser-Sarwar-2018)	Harder's zeroth law is tautological.	Complete
Tautological Status of Theory Rejection theorem (Barseghyan-2015)			None
Tautological Status of Theory Rejection theorem (Barseghyan-Pandey-2023)			None
The Necessity of Intercommunication for Community			None
The Necessity of Language in Community			None
The Paradox of Normative Propositions	Resolution to the Paradox of Normative Propositions (Sebastien-2016)	The new third law resolves the paradox of normative propositions by making it clear that employed methods don't necessarily follow from all accepted theories, but only from some.	Complete
The Status of Holism and Ripple Effect			None
Theory Assessment Outcomes	Theory Assessment Outcomes (Patton-Overgaard-Barseghyan-2017)	The possible outcomes of theory assessment are satisfied, not satisfied, and inconclusive.	Complete
Theory vs. Method Compatibility			None

Norms

These are all the normative topics with their respective theories currently accepted by the community:

Topic	Accepted Answer	Answer's Formulation	Answer Type
Anomalies			None
Assessment of Scientonomy - Method			None
Assessment of Scientonomy - Relevant Facts	Assessment of Scientonomy - Relevant Facts (Barseghyan-2015)	At the level of metatheory, the relevant evidence for assessing a scientonomic theory ought to be the facts relating to the state of the scientific mosaic and its transitions. The complete list of relevant phenomena that ought to be considered can only be identified for a specific scientonomic theory.	Complete
Assessment of Scientonomy	Assessment of Scientonomy - Relevant Facts (Barseghyan-2015)	At the level of metatheory, the relevant evidence for assessing a scientonomic theory ought to be the facts relating to the state of the scientific mosaic and its transitions. The complete list of relevant phenomena that ought to be considered can only be identified for a specific scientonomic theory.	Partial
Indicators of Communities			None
Indicators of Method Employment	Indicators of Method Employment (Barseghyan-2015)	The employed method of theory appraisal of a community at some time is not necessarily indicated by the methodological texts of that time and must be inferred from actual patterns of theory acceptance and other indirect evidence.	Complete
Indicators of Question Acceptance			None
Indicators of Theory Acceptance	Indicators of Theory Acceptance (Barseghyan-2015)	Indicators of theory acceptance are textual sources that represent the position of a scientific community regarding a theory at some time. Useful indicators are contextual to time and culture. They might include such things as encyclopedias, textbooks, university curricula, and minutes of association meetings.	Complete
Indicators of Violation			None
Inferring Theory Assessment Outcomes			None
Scientonomic Workflow	Scientonomic Workflow (Barseghyan et al.-2016)	Scientonomic knowledge is best advanced by: documenting the body of accepted communal knowledge in an online encyclopedia; scrutinizing this accepted knowledge, identifying its flaws, and formulating open questions at seminars, conferences, publications, and other in-person or online formats; publishing journal articles that propose modifications to our current knowledge and documenting these suggestions; evaluating the suggested modifications with the goal of reaching a communal consensus and changing the respective encyclopedia pages when a verdict is reached.	Complete
Scope of Scientonomy - Acceptance Use and Pursuit	Scope of Scientonomy - Acceptance (Barseghyan-2015)	Scientonomy ought to address the issue of how transitions from one accepted theory to another take place and what logic governs this evolution, and need not deal in questions of theory pursuit or use.	Complete
Scope of Scientonomy - Construction and Appraisal	Scope of Scientonomy - Appraisal (Barseghyan-2015)	Scientonomy should describe and explain how changes in the mosaic of accepted scientific theories and employed methods take place. Any such instance of scientific change is a result of appraisal, which is a decision of the community to accept a proposed modification to the mosaic. Scientonomy must provide an account of this appraisal process. A theory of scientific change is not required to account for the process of theory construction.	Complete
Scope of Scientonomy - Descriptive and Normative	Scope of Scientonomy - Descriptive (Barseghyan-2015)	Scientonomy is a descriptive discipline whose main task is to explain the process of changes in the scientific mosaic. It is distinct from normative methodology, whose task is to evaluate and prescribe methods. The findings of scientonomy may be used in such normative evaluations, but scientonomy itself should not be expected to perform any normative functions.	Complete
Scope of Scientonomy - Explicit and Implicit	Scope of Scientonomy - Implicit and Explicit (Barseghyan-2017)	A scientonomic theory ought to distinguish between explicit statements of methodology, and actual employed methods, which may sometimes be implicit. It ought to account for employed methods, whether they correspond with stated methodology, or are purely implicit.	Complete
Scope of Scientonomy - Individual and Social	Scope of Scientonomy - Social (Barseghyan-2015)	It is implicit in the definition of scientonomy that it should explain changes in the scientific mosaic of accepted theories and employed methods, which are changes at the level of the scientific community. It need not account for changes at the level of the beliefs of individuals.	Complete
Scope of Scientonomy - Mosaic Formation			None
Scope of Scientonomy - Time Fields and Scale	Scope of Scientonomy - All Fields (Barseghyan-2015) Scope of Scientonomy - All Scales (Barseghyan-2015) Scope of Scientonomy - All Time Periods (Barseghyan-2015)	Scientonomy should account for all changes to the scientific mosaic, regardless of which fields of inquiry they concern. Scientonomy should provide explanations of all kinds of changes to the scientific mosaic at all scales from the most minor transitions to the most major. Scientonomy ought to account for all scientific changes for all time periods where a scientific mosaic can be found.	Complete
Scope of Scientonomy - Tracing Implicit and Explicit			None
Scope of Scientonomy	Scope of Scientonomy - Social (Barseghyan-2015)	It is implicit in the definition of scientonomy that it should explain changes in the scientific mosaic of accepted theories and employed methods, which are changes at the level of the scientific community. It need not account for changes at the level of the beliefs of individuals.	Partial
Scope of Scientonomy	Scope of Scientonomy - Descriptive (Barseghyan-2015)	Scientonomy is a descriptive discipline whose main task is to explain the process of changes in the scientific mosaic. It is distinct from normative methodology, whose task is to evaluate and prescribe methods. The findings of scientonomy may be used in such normative evaluations, but scientonomy itself should not be expected to perform any normative functions.	Partial
Scope of Scientonomy	Scope of Scientonomy - Appraisal (Barseghyan-2015)	Scientonomy should describe and explain how changes in the mosaic of accepted scientific theories and employed methods take place. Any such instance of scientific change is a result of appraisal, which is a decision of the community to accept a proposed modification to the mosaic. Scientonomy must provide an account of this appraisal process. A theory of scientific change is not required to account for the process of theory construction.	Partial
Scope of Scientonomy	Scope of Scientonomy - Acceptance (Barseghyan-2015)	Scientonomy ought to address the issue of how transitions from one accepted theory to another take place and what logic governs this evolution, and need not deal in questions of theory pursuit or use.	Partial
Scope of Scientonomy	Scope of Scientonomy - All Fields (Barseghyan-2015) Scope of Scientonomy - All Scales (Barseghyan-2015) Scope of Scientonomy - All Time Periods (Barseghyan-2015)	Scientonomy should account for all changes to the scientific mosaic, regardless of which fields of inquiry they concern. Scientonomy should provide explanations of all kinds of changes to the scientific mosaic at all scales from the most minor transitions to the most major. Scientonomy ought to account for all scientific changes for all time periods where a scientific mosaic can be found.	Partial
Scope of Scientonomy	Scope of Scientonomy - Implicit and Explicit (Barseghyan-2017)	A scientonomic theory ought to distinguish between explicit statements of methodology, and actual employed methods, which may sometimes be implicit. It ought to account for employed methods, whether they correspond with stated methodology, or are purely implicit.	Partial
Workflow - Closure Mechanism			None
Workflow - Goals of Peer Review	Goals of Peer Review - Pursuitworthiness (Shaw-Barseghyan-2019)	The goal of peer reviews in the scientonomic workflow is evaluation for pursuitworthiness rather than acceptability.	Complete
Workflow - Handling Ripple Effects	Handling Ripple Effects - Editorial House Keeping (Shaw-Barseghyan-2019)	The encyclopedia editors should be granted official housekeeping rights to handle the ripple effects. If the additional required changes are implicit in the suggested modification, the editors should create and alter encyclopedia pages to ensure that the accepted body of scientonomic knowledge is properly documented; if it is conceivable to accept the modification without accepting the ripple effect change in question, the editors should register these changes as new suggested modifications so that the community can discuss and evaluate them in an orderly fashion.	Complete
Workflow - Publishing Modification Comments	Publishing Modification Comments (Shaw-Barseghyan-Yan-2019)	The discussions concerning a suggested modification are to be published once a communal verdict is available. The discussions are to be published in the journal as special commentary articles co-authored by all participants of the discussion or in special edited collections.	Complete
Workflow - Reformulating Suggesting Modifications	Allow Modification Reformulations (Shaw-Barseghyan-2019)	The commentators of suggested modifications are allowed to suggest reformulations of the original formulations in the comments. By default, the new formulation should bear the original author’s name, unless the author decides to give credit to those who significantly contributed to the new reformulation.	Complete

Open Questions

Here are all the open questions currently accepted by the community:

Topic	Topic Type	Question	Formulated Year
Acceptance Criteria	Definitional	What is acceptance criteria? How should it be defined?	2015
Accepted Methodology and Theory Pursuit	Descriptive	Is there any connection between an accepted methodology and the pursuit of a theory?	2016
Accidental Group	Definitional	What is accidental group? How should it be defined?	2016
Applicability of Scientonomy to Theories as Models	Descriptive	Is the theory of scientific change applicable to theories construed as sets of models, or in ways that reject their purely formal characterization?	2017
Applicability of the Laws of Scientific Change	Descriptive	To which mosaics do the laws of scientific change apply? Do they apply only to scientific communities, to all epistemic communities, or all communities whatsoever (including non-epistemic communities)? Do these patterns emerge and exist in communities who gather together to study the world?	2017
Applicability of the Laws of Scientific Change to Individuals	Descriptive	Do the scientonomic laws apply to individual epistemic agents?	2019
Application of Scientonomy to Other Fields	Descriptive	What is the broader relevance of scientonomy? How can scientonomy inform other fields of inquiry?	2018
Application of Scientonomy to Philosophy of Science	Descriptive	How can the findings of scientonomy be applied to answer the traditional questions of the philosophy of science?	2018
Assessment of Scientonomy - Method	Normative	What method ought to be employed to assess a scientonomic theory?	2015
Assessment of Scientonomy - Relevant Facts	Normative	What classes of facts ought we to take into account when assessing a scientonomic theory?	2015
Associations of Acceptance Criteria	Descriptive	How is the class of acceptance criteria associated with other classes (and itself)? What aggregation, composition, or other association relations can exist between acceptance criteria, as well as between acceptance criteria and instances of other classes?	2015
Associations of Accidental Group	Descriptive	How is the class of accidental group associated with other classes (and itself)? What aggregation, composition, or other association relations can exist between accidental groups, as well as between an accidental group and instances of other classes?	2016
Associations of Authority Delegation	Descriptive	How is the class of authority delegation associated with other classes (and itself)? What aggregation, composition, or other association relations can exist between instances of authority delegation, as well as between authority delegation and instances of other classes?	2016
Associations of Community	Descriptive	How is the class of community associated with other classes (and itself)? What aggregation, composition, or other association relations can exist between communities, as well as between a community and instances of other classes?	2016
Associations of Compatibility	Descriptive	How is the class of compatibility associated with other classes (and itself)? What aggregation, composition, or other association relations can exist between instances of compatibility, as well as between compatibility and instances of other classes?	2015
Associations of Compatibility Criteria	Descriptive	How is the class of compatibility criteria associated with other classes (and itself)? What aggregation, composition, or other association relations can exist between compatibility criterias, as well as between a compatibility criteria and instances of other classes?	2015
Associations of Core Question	Descriptive	How is the class of core question associated with other classes (and itself)? What aggregation, composition, or other association relations can exist between core questions, as well as between a core question and instances of other classes?	2021
Associations of Core Theory	Descriptive	How is the class of core theory associated with other classes (and itself)? What aggregation, composition, or other association relations can exist between core theories, as well as between a core theory and instances of other classes?	2021
Associations of Definition	Descriptive	How is the class of definition associated with other classes (and itself)? What aggregation, composition, or other association relations can exist between definitions, as well as between a definition and instances of other classes?	2018
Associations of Delineating Theory	Descriptive	How is the class of delineating theory associated with other classes (and itself)? What aggregation, composition, or other association relations can exist between delineating theories, as well as between a delineating theory and instances of other classes?	2021
Associations of Demarcation Criteria	Descriptive	How is the class of demarcation criteria associated with other classes (and itself)? What aggregation, composition, or other association relations can exist between demarcation criterias, as well as between a demarcation criteria and instances of other classes?	2015
Associations of Descriptive Theory	Descriptive	How is the class of descriptive theory associated with other classes (and itself)? What aggregation, composition, or other association relations can exist between descriptive theories, as well as between a descriptive theory and instances of other classes?	2015
Associations of Discipline	Descriptive	How is the class of discipline associated with other classes (and itself)? What aggregation, composition, or other association relations can exist between disciplines, as well as between a discipline and instances of other classes?	2016
Associations of Discipline Acceptance	Descriptive	How is the class of discipline acceptance associated with other classes (and itself)? What aggregation, composition, or other association relations can exist between instances of discipline acceptance, as well as between discipline acceptance and instances of other classes?	2021
Associations of Element Decay	Descriptive	How is the class of element decay associated with other classes (and itself)? What aggregation, composition, or other association relations can exist between instances of element decay, as well as between element decay and instances of other classes?	2021
Associations of Epistemic Action	Descriptive	How is the class of epistemic action associated with other classes (and itself)? What aggregation, composition, or other association relations can exist between epistemic actions, as well as between an epistemic action and instances of other classes?	2023
Associations of Epistemic Agent	Descriptive	How is the class of epistemic agent associated with other classes (and itself)? What aggregation, composition, or other association relations can exist between epistemic agents, as well as between an epistemic agent and instances of other classes?	2018
Associations of Epistemic Community	Descriptive	How is the class of epistemic community associated with other classes (and itself)? What aggregation, composition, or other association relations can exist between epistemic communities, as well as between an epistemic community and instances of other classes?	2016
Associations of Epistemic Element	Descriptive	How is the class of epistemic element associated with other classes (and itself)? What aggregation, composition, or other association relations can exist between epistemic elements, as well as between an epistemic element and instances of other classes?	2015
Associations of Epistemic Presupposition	Descriptive	How is the class of epistemic presupposition associated with other classes (and itself)? What aggregation, composition, or other association relations can exist between epistemic presuppositions, as well as between an epistemic presupposition and instances of other classes?	2019
Associations of Epistemic Stance	Descriptive	How is the class of epistemic stance associated with other classes (and itself)? What aggregation, composition, or other association relations can exist between epistemic stances, as well as between an epistemic stance and instances of other classes?	2015
Associations of Error	Descriptive	How is the class of error associated with other classes (and itself)? What aggregation, composition, or other association relations can exist between errors, as well as between an error and instances of other classes?	2019
Associations of Explicable-Implicit	Descriptive	How is the class of explicable-implicit associated with other classes (and itself)? What aggregation, composition, or other association relations can exist between explicable-implicits, as well as between explicable-implicit and instances of other classes?	2018
Associations of Global Epistemic Action	Descriptive	How is the class of global epistemic action associated with other classes (and itself)? What aggregation, composition, or other association relations can exist between global epistemic actions, as well as between a global epistemic action and instances of other classes?	2023
Associations of Group	Descriptive	How is the class of group associated with other classes (and itself)? What aggregation, composition, or other association relations can exist between groups, as well as between a group and instances of other classes?	2016
Associations of Hierarchical Authority Delegation	Descriptive	How is the class of hierarchical authority delegation associated with other classes (and itself)? What aggregation, composition, or other association relations can exist between instances of hierarchical authority delegation, as well as between hierarchical authority delegation and instances of other classes?	2017
Associations of Implicit	Descriptive	How is the class of implicit associated with other classes (and itself)? What aggregation, composition, or other association relations can exist between implicits, as well as between implicit and instances of other classes?	2018
Associations of Individual Epistemic Agent	Descriptive	How is the class of individual epistemic agent associated with other classes (and itself)? What aggregation, composition, or other association relations can exist between individual epistemic agents, as well as between an individual epistemic agent and instances of other classes?	2019
Associations of Local Action Availability	Descriptive	How is the class of local action availability associated with other classes (and itself)? What aggregation, composition, or other association relations can exist between instances of local action availability, as well as between local action availability and instances of other classes?	2023
Associations of Local Epistemic Action	Descriptive	How is the class of local epistemic action associated with other classes (and itself)? What aggregation, composition, or other association relations can exist between local epistemic actions, as well as between a local epistemic action and instances of other classes?	2023
Associations of Logical Presupposition	Descriptive	How is the class of logical presupposition associated with other classes (and itself)? What aggregation, composition, or other association relations can exist between logical presuppositions, as well as between a logical presupposition and instances of other classes?	2021
Associations of Method	Descriptive	How is the class of method associated with other classes (and itself)? What aggregation, composition, or other association relations can exist between methods, as well as between a method and instances of other classes?	2015
Associations of Method Hierarchy	Descriptive	How is the class of method hierarchy associated with other classes (and itself)? What aggregation, composition, or other association relations can exist between method hierarchies, as well as between a method hierarchy and instances of other classes?	2019
Associations of Methodology	Descriptive	How is the class of methodology associated with other classes (and itself)? What aggregation, composition, or other association relations can exist between methodologys, as well as between a methodology and instances of other classes?	2015
Associations of Model	Descriptive	How is the class of model associated with other classes (and itself)? What aggregation, composition, or other association relations can exist between models, as well as between a model and instances of other classes?	2016
Associations of Mosaic Merge	Descriptive	How is the class of mosaic merge associated with other classes (and itself)? What aggregation, composition, or other association relations can exist between mosaic merges, as well as between a mosaic merge and instances of other classes?	2015
Associations of Mosaic Split	Descriptive	How is the class of mosaic split associated with other classes (and itself)? What aggregation, composition, or other association relations can exist between instances of mosaic split, as well as between a mosaic split and instances of other classes?	2015
Associations of Multiple Authority Delegation	Descriptive	How is the class of multiple authority delegation associated with other classes (and itself)? What aggregation, composition, or other association relations can exist between multiple authority delegations, as well as between multiple authority delegation and instances of other classes?	2017
Associations of Non-Epistemic Community	Descriptive	How is the class of non-epistemic community associated with other classes (and itself)? What aggregation, composition, or other association relations can exist between non-epistemic communities, as well as between a non-epistemic community and instances of other classes?	2016
Associations of Non-Hierarchical Authority Delegation	Descriptive	How is the class of non-hierarchical authority delegation associated with other classes (and itself)? What aggregation, composition, or other association relations can exist between instances of non-hierarchical authority delegation, as well as between non-hierarchical authority delegation and instances of other classes?	2017
Associations of Norm Employment	Descriptive	How is the class of norm employment associated with other classes (and itself)? What aggregation, composition, or other association relations can exist between instances of norm employment, as well as between norm employment and instances of other classes?	2018
Associations of Normative Theory	Descriptive	How is the class of normative theory associated with other classes (and itself)? What aggregation, composition, or other association relations can exist between normative theories, as well as between a normative theory and instances of other classes?	2015
Associations of Procedural Method	Descriptive	How is the class of procedural method associated with other classes (and itself)? What aggregation, composition, or other association relations can exist between procedural methods, as well as between a procedural method and instances of other classes?	2015
Associations of Question	Descriptive	How is the class of question associated with other classes (and itself)? What aggregation, composition, or other association relations can exist between questions, as well as between a question and instances of other classes?	2018
Associations of Question Acceptance	Descriptive	How is the class of question acceptance associated with other classes (and itself)? What aggregation, composition, or other association relations can exist between instances of question acceptance, as well as between question acceptance and instances of other classes?	2018
Associations of Question Pursuit	Descriptive	How is the class of question pursuit associated with other classes (and itself)? What aggregation, composition, or other association relations can exist between instances of question pursuit, as well as between question pursuit and instances of other classes?	2022
Associations of Reason	Descriptive	How is the class of reason associated with other classes (and itself)? What aggregation, composition, or other association relations can exist between reasons, as well as between a reason and instances of other classes?	2019
Associations of Scientific Change	Descriptive	How is the class of scientific change associated with other classes (and itself)? What aggregation, composition, or other association relations can exist between instances of scientific change, as well as between scientific change and instances of other classes?	2015
Associations of Scientific Community	Descriptive	How is the class of scientific community associated with other classes (and itself)? What aggregation, composition, or other association relations can exist between scientific communities, as well as between a scientific community and instances of other classes?	2015
Associations of Scientific Mosaic	Descriptive	How is the class of scientific mosaic associated with other classes (and itself)? What aggregation, composition, or other association relations can exist between scientific mosaics, as well as between a scientific mosaic and instances of other classes?	2015
Associations of Scientonomy	Descriptive	How is the class of scientonomy associated with other classes (and itself)? What aggregation, composition, or other association relations can exist between scientonomy, as well as between scientonomy and instances of other classes?	2016
Associations of Singular Authority Delegation	Descriptive	How is the class of singular authority delegation associated with other classes (and itself)? What aggregation, composition, or other association relations can exist between instances of singular authority delegation, as well as between singular authority delegation and instances of other classes?	2017
Associations of Sociocultural Factors	Descriptive	How is the class of sociocultural factors associated with other classes (and itself)? What aggregation, composition, or other association relations can exist between sociocultural factorss, as well as between a sociocultural factors and instances of other classes?	2016
Associations of Subdiscipline	Descriptive	How is the class of subdiscipline associated with other classes (and itself)? What aggregation, composition, or other association relations can exist between subdisciplines, as well as between a subdiscipline and instances of other classes?	2021
Associations of Subquestion	Descriptive	How is the class of subquestion associated with other classes (and itself)? What aggregation, composition, or other association relations can exist between subquestions, as well as between a subquestion and instances of other classes?	2021
Associations of Substantive Method	Descriptive	How is the class of substantive method associated with other classes (and itself)? What aggregation, composition, or other association relations can exist between substantive methods, as well as between a substantive method and instances of other classes?	2015
Associations of Theory	Descriptive	How is the class of theory associated with other classes (and itself)? What aggregation, composition, or other association relations can exist between theories, as well as between a theory and instances of other classes?	2015
Associations of Theory Acceptance	Descriptive	How is the class of theory acceptance associated with other classes (and itself)? What aggregation, composition, or other association relations can exist between instances of theory acceptance, as well as between theory acceptance and instances of other classes?	2015
Associations of Theory Decay	Descriptive	How is the class of theory decay associated with other classes (and itself)? What aggregation, composition, or other association relations can exist between instances of theory decay, as well as between theory decay and instances of other classes?	2021
Associations of Theory Pursuit	Descriptive	How is the class of theory pursuit associated with other classes (and itself)? What aggregation, composition, or other association relations can exist between instances of pursuit decay, as well as between theory pursuit and instances of other classes?	2015
Associations of Theory Use	Descriptive	How is the class of theory use associated with other classes (and itself)? What aggregation, composition, or other association relations can exist between instances of theory use, as well as between theory use and instances of other classes?	2015
Authority Delegation	Definitional	What is authority delegation? How should it be defined?	2016
Changeability of the Scientific Mosaic	Descriptive	Under what circumstances does scientific change become impossible?	2015
Community	Definitional	What is community? How should it be defined?	2016
Compatibility	Definitional	What is compatibility? How should it be defined?	2015
Compatibility Criteria	Definitional	What is compatibility criteria? How should it be defined?	2015
Compatibility of Mosaic Elements	Descriptive	Are all elements within a mosaic compatible with one another?	2018
Core Question	Definitional	What is core question? How should it be defined?	2021
Core Theory	Definitional	What is core theory? How should it be defined?	2021
Definition	Definitional	What is definition? How should it be defined?	2018
Delegation of Authority to Artifacts	Descriptive	Can there be delegation of authority to tools, instruments, other material objects, or to computer software?	2016
Delegation of Authority to Individuals	Descriptive	Can there be delegation of authority to individuals?	2018
Delegation of Authority to Past Communities	Descriptive	Is it possible for a community to delegate authority to a community that no longer exists? Can a community delegate authority to a past expert?	2017
Delineating Theory	Definitional	What is delineating theory? How should it be defined?	2021
Demarcation Criteria	Definitional	What is demarcation criteria? How should it be defined?	2015
Deriving Methods from an Empty Set	Descriptive	Does the possibility of a method being derived from an empty set pose a problem for the current formulation of the third law? Can we conceive of a situation in which a method is derived from an empty subset?	2017
Descriptive Theory	Definitional	What is descriptive theory? How should it be defined?	2015
Determinism vs. Underdeterminism in Scientific Change	Descriptive	Is the process of scientific change a strictly deterministic process? Will two unconnected communities experience a similar historical series of changes in their individual mosaics?	2015
Discipline	Definitional	What is discipline? How should it be defined?	2016
Discipline Acceptance	Definitional	What is discipline acceptance? How should it be defined?	2021
Disjointness of Acceptance Criteria	Descriptive	What other classes is the class of acceptance criteria disjoint with, i.e. classes that don't share any instances with acceptance criteria?	2015
Disjointness of Accidental Group	Descriptive	What other classes is the class of accidental group disjoint with, i.e. classes that don't share any instances with accidental group?	2016
Disjointness of Authority Delegation	Descriptive	What other classes is the class of authority delegation disjoint with, i.e. classes that don't share any instances with authority delegation?	2016
Disjointness of Community	Descriptive	What other classes is the class of community disjoint with, i.e. classes that don't share any instances with community?	2016
Disjointness of Compatibility	Descriptive	What other classes is the class of compatibility disjoint with, i.e. classes that don't share any instances with compatibility?	2015
Disjointness of Compatibility Criteria	Descriptive	What other classes is the class of compatibility criteria disjoint with, i.e. classes that don't share any instances with compatibility criteria?	2015
Disjointness of Core Question	Descriptive	What other classes is the class of core question disjoint with, i.e. classes that don't share any instances with core question?	2021
Disjointness of Core Theory	Descriptive	What other classes is the class of core theory disjoint with, i.e. classes that don't share any instances with core theory?	2021
Disjointness of Definition	Descriptive	What other classes is the class of definition disjoint with, i.e. classes that don't share any instances with definition?	2018
Disjointness of Delineating Theory	Descriptive	What other classes is the class of delineating theory disjoint with, i.e. classes that don't share any instances with delineating theory?	2021
Disjointness of Demarcation Criteria	Descriptive	What other classes is the class of demarcation criteria disjoint with, i.e. classes that don't share any instances with demarcation criteria?	2015
Disjointness of Descriptive Theory	Descriptive	What other classes is the class of descriptive theory disjoint with, i.e. classes that don't share any instances with descriptive theory?	2015
Disjointness of Discipline	Descriptive	What other classes is the class of discipline disjoint with, i.e. classes that don't share any instances with discipline?	2016
Disjointness of Discipline Acceptance	Descriptive	What other classes is the class of discipline acceptance disjoint with, i.e. classes that don't share any instances with discipline acceptance?	2021
Disjointness of Element Decay	Descriptive	What other classes is the class of element decay disjoint with, i.e. classes that don't share any instances with element decay?	2021
Disjointness of Epistemic Action	Descriptive	What other classes is the class of epistemic action disjoint with, i.e. classes that don't share any instances with epistemic action?	2023
Disjointness of Epistemic Agent	Descriptive	What other classes is the class of epistemic agent disjoint with, i.e. classes that don't share any instances with epistemic agent?	2018
Disjointness of Epistemic Community	Descriptive	What other classes is the class of epistemic community disjoint with, i.e. classes that don't share any instances with epistemic community?	2016
Disjointness of Epistemic Element	Descriptive	What other classes is the class of epistemic element disjoint with, i.e. classes that don't share any instances with epistemic element?	2015
Disjointness of Epistemic Presupposition	Descriptive	What other classes is the class of epistemic presupposition disjoint with, i.e. classes that don't share any instances with epistemic presupposition?	2019
Disjointness of Epistemic Stance	Descriptive	What other classes is the class of epistemic stance disjoint with, i.e. classes that don't share any instances with epistemic stance?	2015
Disjointness of Error	Descriptive	What other classes is the class of error disjoint with, i.e. classes that don't share any instances with error?	2019
Disjointness of Explicable-Implicit	Descriptive	What other classes is the class of explicable-implicit disjoint with, i.e. classes that don't share any instances with explicable-implicit?	2018
Disjointness of Explicit	Descriptive	What other classes is the class of explicit disjoint with, i.e. classes that don't share any instances with explicit?	2018
Disjointness of Global Epistemic Action	Descriptive	What other classes is the class of global epistemic action disjoint with, i.e. classes that don't share any instances with global epistemic action?	2023
Disjointness of Group	Descriptive	What other classes is the class of group disjoint with, i.e. classes that don't share any instances with group?	2016
Disjointness of Hierarchical Authority Delegation	Descriptive	What other classes is the class of hierarchical authority delegation disjoint with, i.e. classes that don't share any instances with hierarchical authority delegation?	2017
Disjointness of Implicit	Descriptive	What other classes is the class of implicit disjoint with, i.e. classes that don't share any instances with implicit?	2018
Disjointness of Individual Epistemic Agent	Descriptive	What other classes is the class of individual epistemic agent disjoint with, i.e. classes that don't share any instances with individual epistemic agent?	2019
Disjointness of Inexplicable	Descriptive	What other classes is the class of inexplicable disjoint with, i.e. classes that don't share any instances with inexplicable?	2018
Disjointness of Local Action Availability	Descriptive	What other classes is the class of local action availability disjoint with, i.e. classes that don't share any instances with local action availability?	2023
Disjointness of Local Epistemic Action	Descriptive	What other classes is the class of local epistemic action disjoint with, i.e. classes that don't share any instances with local epistemic action?	2023
Disjointness of Logical Presupposition	Descriptive	What other classes is the class of logical presupposition disjoint with, i.e. classes that don't share any instances with logical presupposition?	2021
Disjointness of Method	Descriptive	What other classes is the class of method disjoint with, i.e. classes that don't share any instances with method?	2015
Disjointness of Method Hierarchy	Descriptive	What other classes is the class of method hierarchy disjoint with, i.e. classes that don't share any instances with method hierarchy?	2019
Disjointness of Methodology	Descriptive	What other classes is the class of methodology disjoint with, i.e. classes that don't share any instances with methodology?	2015
Disjointness of Model	Descriptive	What other classes is the class of model disjoint with, i.e. classes that don't share any instances with model?	2016
Disjointness of Mosaic Merge	Descriptive	What other classes is the class of mosaic merge disjoint with, i.e. classes that don't share any instances with mosaic merge?	2015
Disjointness of Mosaic Split	Descriptive	What other classes is the class of mosaic split disjoint with, i.e. classes that don't share any instances with mosaic split?	2015
Disjointness of Multiple Authority Delegation	Descriptive	What other classes is the class of multiple authority delegation disjoint with, i.e. classes that don't share any instances with multiple authority delegation?	2017
Disjointness of Non-Epistemic Community	Descriptive	What other classes is the class of non-epistemic community disjoint with, i.e. classes that don't share any instances with non-epistemic community?	2016
Disjointness of Non-Hierarchical Authority Delegation	Descriptive	What other classes is the class of non-hierarchical authority delegation disjoint with, i.e. classes that don't share any instances with non-hierarchical authority delegation?	2017
Disjointness of Norm Employment	Descriptive	What other classes is the class of norm employment disjoint with, i.e. classes that don't share any instances with norm employment?	2018
Disjointness of Normative Theory	Descriptive	What other classes is the class of normative theory disjoint with, i.e. classes that don't share any instances with normative theory?	2015
Disjointness of Procedural Method	Descriptive	What other classes is the class of procedural method disjoint with, i.e. classes that don't share any instances with procedural method?	2015
Disjointness of Question	Descriptive	What other classes is the class of question disjoint with, i.e. classes that don't share any instances with question?	2018
Disjointness of Question Acceptance	Descriptive	What other classes is the class of question acceptance disjoint with, i.e. classes that don't share any instances with question acceptance?	2018
Disjointness of Question Pursuit	Descriptive	What other classes is the class of question pursuit disjoint with, i.e. classes that don't share any instances with question pursuit?	2022
Disjointness of Reason	Descriptive	What other classes is the class of reason disjoint with, i.e. classes that don't share any instances with reason?	2019
Disjointness of Scientific Change	Descriptive	What other classes is the class of scientific change disjoint with, i.e. classes that don't share any instances with scientific change?	2015
Disjointness of Scientific Community	Descriptive	What other classes is the class of scientific community disjoint with, i.e. classes that don't share any instances with scientific community?	2015
Disjointness of Scientific Mosaic	Descriptive	What other classes is the class of scientific mosaic disjoint with, i.e. classes that don't share any instances with scientific mosaic?	2015
Disjointness of Scientonomy	Descriptive	What other classes is the class of scientonomy disjoint with, i.e. classes that don't share any instances with scientonomy?	2016
Disjointness of Singular Authority Delegation	Descriptive	What other classes is the class of singular authority delegation disjoint with, i.e. classes that don't share any instances with singular authority delegation?	2017
Disjointness of Sociocultural Factors	Descriptive	What other classes is the class of sociocultural factors disjoint with, i.e. classes that don't share any instances with sociocultural factors?	2016
Disjointness of Subdiscipline	Descriptive	What other classes is the class of subdiscipline disjoint with, i.e. classes that don't share any instances with subdiscipline?	2021
Disjointness of Subquestion	Descriptive	What other classes is the class of subquestion disjoint with, i.e. classes that don't share any instances with subquestion?	2021
Disjointness of Substantive Method	Descriptive	What other classes is the class of substantive method disjoint with, i.e. classes that don't share any instances with substantive method?	2015
Disjointness of Theory	Descriptive	What other classes is the class of theory disjoint with, i.e. classes that don't share any instances with theory?	2015
Disjointness of Theory Acceptance	Descriptive	What other classes is the class of theory acceptance disjoint with, i.e. classes that don't share any instances with theory acceptance?	2015
Disjointness of Theory Decay	Descriptive	What other classes is the class of theory decay disjoint with, i.e. classes that don't share any instances with theory decay?	2021
Disjointness of Theory Pursuit	Descriptive	What other classes is the class of theory pursuit disjoint with, i.e. classes that don't share any instances with theory pursuit?	2015
Disjointness of Theory Use	Descriptive	What other classes is the class of theory use disjoint with, i.e. classes that don't share any instances with theory use?	2015
Element Decay	Definitional	What is element decay? How should it be defined?	2021
Epistemic Action	Definitional	What is epistemic action? How should it be defined?	2023
Epistemic Agent	Definitional	What is epistemic agent? How should it be defined?	2018
Epistemic Community	Definitional	What is epistemic community? How should it be defined? I.e. how is it different from non-epistemic community?	2016
Epistemic Element	Definitional	What is epistemic element? How should it be defined?	2015
Epistemic Presupposition	Definitional	What is epistemic presupposition? How should it be defined?	2019
Epistemic Stance	Definitional	What is epistemic stance? How should it be defined?	2015
Epistemic Stances Towards Epistemic Elements	Descriptive	What types of epistemic stances can be taken by epistemic agents towards epistemic elements?	2015
Epistemic Stances Towards Normative Theories	Descriptive	What types of epistemic stances can be taken by epistemic agents towards normative theories?	2016
Epistemic Stances Towards Questions	Descriptive	What types of epistemic stances can be taken by epistemic agents towards questions?	2018
Epistemic Stances Towards Theories	Descriptive	What types of epistemic stances can be taken by epistemic agents towards theories?	2015
Error	Definitional	What is error? How should it be defined?	2019
Existence of Acceptance Criteria	Descriptive	Does acceptance criteria exist?	2015
Existence of Accidental Group	Descriptive	Does an accidental group exist?	2016
Existence of Authority Delegation	Descriptive	Does authority delegation exist?	2016
Existence of Community	Descriptive	Does a community exist?	2016
Existence of Compatibility	Descriptive	Does compatibility exist?	2015
Existence of Compatibility Criteria	Descriptive	Does a compatibility criteria exist?	2015
Existence of Core Question	Descriptive	Does a core question exist?	2021
Existence of Core Theory	Descriptive	Does a core theory exist?	2021
Existence of Definition	Descriptive	Does a definition exist?	2018
Existence of Delineating Theory	Descriptive	Does a delineating theory exist?	2021
Existence of Demarcation Criteria	Descriptive	Does a demarcation criteria exist?	2015
Existence of Descriptive Theory	Descriptive	Does a descriptive theory exist?	2015
Existence of Discipline	Descriptive	Does a discipline exist?	2016
Existence of Discipline Acceptance	Descriptive	Does discipline acceptance exist?	2021
Existence of Element Decay	Descriptive	Does element decay exist?	2021
Existence of Epistemic Action	Descriptive	Does an epistemic action exist?	2023
Existence of Epistemic Agent	Descriptive	Does an epistemic agent exist?	2018
Existence of Epistemic Community	Descriptive	Does an epistemic community exist?	2016
Existence of Epistemic Element	Descriptive	Does an epistemic element exist?	2015
Existence of Epistemic Presupposition	Descriptive	Does an epistemic presupposition exist?	2019
Existence of Epistemic Stance	Descriptive	Does an epistemic stance exist?	2015
Existence of Error	Descriptive	Does an error exist?	2019
Existence of Explicable-Implicit	Descriptive	Does explicable-implicit exist?	2018
Existence of Global Epistemic Action	Descriptive	Does a global epistemic action exist?	2023
Existence of Group	Descriptive	Does a group exist?	2016
Existence of Hierarchical Authority Delegation	Descriptive	Does hierarchical authority delegation exist?	2017
Existence of Implicit	Descriptive	Does implicit exist?	2018
Existence of Individual Epistemic Agent	Descriptive	Does an individual epistemic agent exist?	2019
Existence of Local Action Availability	Descriptive	Does local action availability exist?	2023
Existence of Local Epistemic Action	Descriptive	Does a local epistemic action exist?	2023
Existence of Logical Presupposition	Descriptive	Does a logical presupposition exist?	2021
Existence of Method	Descriptive	Does a method exist?	2015
Existence of Method Hierarchies	Descriptive	Do method hierarchies exist?	2019
Existence of Method Hierarchy	Descriptive	Does a method hierarchy exist?	2019
Existence of Methodology	Descriptive	Does a methodology exist?	2015
Existence of Model	Descriptive	Does a model exist?	2016
Existence of Mosaic Merge	Descriptive	Does a mosaic merge exist?	2015
Existence of Mosaic Split	Descriptive	Does a mosaic split exist?	2015
Existence of Multiple Authority Delegation	Descriptive	Does multiple authority delegation exist?	2017
Existence of Mutual Authority Delegation	Descriptive	Does mutual authority delegation exist?	2016
Existence of Non-Epistemic Community	Descriptive	Does a non-epistemic community exist?	2016
Existence of Non-Hierarchical Authority Delegation	Descriptive	Does non-hierarchical authority delegation exist?	2017
Existence of Norm Employment	Descriptive	Does norm employment exist?	2018
Existence of Normative Theory	Descriptive	Does a normative theory exist?	2015
Existence of One-sided Authority Delegation	Descriptive	Does one-sided authority delegation exist?	2016
Existence of Procedural Method	Descriptive	Does a procedural method exist?	2015
Existence of Question	Descriptive	Does a question exist?	2018
Existence of Question Acceptance	Descriptive	Does question acceptance exist?	2018
Existence of Question Pursuit	Descriptive	Does question pursuit exist?	2022
Existence of Reason	Descriptive	Does a reason exist?	2019
Existence of Scientific Change	Descriptive	Does scientific change exist?	2015
Existence of Scientific Community	Descriptive	Does a scientific community exist?	2015
Existence of Scientific Mosaic	Descriptive	Does a scientific mosaic exist?	2015
Existence of Scientonomy	Descriptive	Does scientonomy exist?	2016
Existence of Singular Authority Delegation	Descriptive	Does singular authority delegation exist?	2017
Existence of Sociocultural Factors	Descriptive	Does a sociocultural factors exist?	2016
Existence of Subdiscipline	Descriptive	Does a subdiscipline exist?	2021
Existence of Subquestion	Descriptive	Does a subquestion exist?	2021
Existence of Substantive Method	Descriptive	Does a substantive method exist?	2015
Existence of Theory	Descriptive	Does a theory exist?	2015
Existence of Theory Acceptance	Descriptive	Does theory acceptance exist?	2015
Existence of Theory Decay	Descriptive	Does theory decay exist?	2021
Existence of Theory Pursuit	Descriptive	Does theory pursuit exist?	2015
Existence of Theory Use	Descriptive	Does theory use exist?	2015
Explicable-Implicit	Definitional	What is explicable-implicit knowledge? How should it be defined?	2018
Explicit	Definitional	What is explicit knowledge? How should it be defined?	2018
Global Epistemic Action	Definitional	What is global epistemic action? How should it be defined?	2023
Group	Definitional	What is group? How should it be defined?	2016
Hierarchical Authority Delegation	Definitional	What is hierarchical authority delegation? How should it be defined?	2017
Hierarchy of Theories	Descriptive	Is there a hierarchy of theories that determines hierarchical authority delegation, hierarchical anomaly-tolerance, compatibility criteria or theory acceptance criteria?	2018
History of Scientific Change	Definitional	What is history of scientific change? How should it be defined?	2015
Implicit	Definitional	What is implicit knowledge? How should it be defined?	2018
Indicators of Communities	Normative	What types of historical markers can be taken as indicative that a certain group constituted an epistemic community at a certain time community?	2018
Indicators of Method Employment	Normative	What kind of historical markers could be taken as indicators that a method was employed by an agent at a given time?	2015
Indicators of Question Acceptance	Normative	What type of historical markers can be taken as indicative that a question was accepted by an agent at a given time?	2018
Indicators of Theory Acceptance	Normative	What types of historical markers can be taken as indicative that a theory was accepted by an agent at a given time?	2015
Indicators of Violation	Normative	What are the methodological indicators of violations of scientific change?	2018
Individual Epistemic Agent	Definitional	What is individual epistemic agent? How should it be defined?	2019
Individual Level	Definitional	What is individual level? How should it be defined?	2015
Individual and Communal Levels	Descriptive	How is the communal mosaic related to the mosaics of the members of the community?	2018
Inexplicable	Definitional	What is inexplicable knowledge? How should it be defined?	2018
Inferring Theory Assessment Outcomes	Normative	What can an observational scientonomist infer about a theory's assessment outcome from the theory's acceptance/unacceptance?	2017
Local Action Availability	Definitional	What is local action availability? How should it be defined?	2023
Local Epistemic Action	Definitional	What is local epistemic action? How should it be defined?	2023
Logical Presupposition	Definitional	What is logical presupposition? How should it be defined?	2021
Mechanism of Compatibility	Descriptive	Under what conditions can two elements coexist in the same mosaic?	2015
Mechanism of Discipline Acceptance	Descriptive	What is the mechanism of discipline acceptance? How do disciplines become accepted?	2021
Mechanism of Discipline Rejection	Descriptive	What is the mechanism of discipline rejection? How do disciplines become rejected?	2021
Mechanism of Error Rejection	Descriptive	When epistemic agent discover that a theory was accepted erroneously, they often reject the theory; the theory rejection theorem suggests that those propositions are replaced by something. What are they replaced by?	2018
Mechanism of Method Employment	Descriptive	How do methods become employed by an epistemic agent?	2015
Mechanism of Mosaic Split	Descriptive	What happens to a mosaic when two or more similar theories are considered equally acceptable by a scientific community? Under what conditions does a mosaic split occur? What happens to a mosaic when it is transformed into two or more mosaics?	2015
Mechanism of Norm Employment	Descriptive	How do norms become employed by an epistemic agent?	2022
Mechanism of Normative Theory Rejection	Descriptive	How do normative theories become rejected? What is the mechanism of normative theory rejection?	2023
Mechanism of Question Acceptance	Descriptive	How do questions become accepted as legitimate topics of inquiry? What is the mechanism of question acceptance?	2018
Mechanism of Question Rejection	Descriptive	How do questions become rejected? What is the mechanism of question rejection?	2021
Mechanism of Scientific Inertia for Epistemic Elements	Descriptive	What makes the epistemic elements of an agent's mosaic continue to remain in the mosaic?	2015
Mechanism of Scientific Inertia for Normative Theories	Descriptive	What makes the normative theories of an agent's mosaic continue to remain in the mosaic?	2023
Mechanism of Scientific Inertia for Questions	Descriptive	What makes the questions of an agent's mosaic continue to remain in the mosaic?	2021
Mechanism of Scientific Inertia for Theories	Descriptive	What makes the theories of an agent's mosaic continue to remain in the mosaic?	2015
Mechanism of Theory Acceptance	Descriptive	How do theories become accepted into a mosaic?	2015
Mechanism of Theory Pursuit	Descriptive	What is the mechanism of theory pursuit, if any? How do theories become pursued by communities? Is pursuit purely determined by sociocultural factors or is there an epistemic element to it as well?	2015
Mechanism of Theory Rejection	Descriptive	How do theories become rejected? What is the mechanism of theory rejection?	2015
Method	Definitional	What is method? How should it be defined?	2015
Method Hierarchy	Definitional	What is method hierarchy? How should it be defined?	2019
Methodology	Definitional	What is methodology? How should it be defined?	2015
Methods Shaping Theory Construction	Descriptive	Do our employed methods and accepted demarcation criteria influence theory construction?	2016
Model	Definitional	What is model? How should it be defined?	2016
Mosaic Merge	Definitional	What is mosaic merge? How should it be defined?	2015
Mosaic Split	Definitional	What is mosaic split? How should it be defined?	2015
Multiple Authority Delegation	Definitional	What is multiple authority delegation? How should it be defined?	2017
Mutual Authority Delegation	Definitional	What is mutual authority delegation? How should it be defined?	2016
Nature of Appraisal	Descriptive		2015
Necessary Descriptive Theories	Descriptive	Are there descriptive theories that are necessarily part of any mosaic? What descriptive theories, is any, are necessary for the process of scientific change to occur?	2023
Necessary Logic	Descriptive	What minimal set of inference rules (i.e. logic) is required for scientific change to occur?	2018
Necessary Methods	Descriptive	Are there methods that are necessarily part of any mosaic? What methods, if any, are necessary for the process of scientific change to occur?	2015
Necessary Questions	Descriptive	Are there questions that are necessarily part of any mosaic? What questions, if any, are necessary for the process of scientific change to occur?	2018
Non-Epistemic Community	Definitional	What is non-epistemic community? How should it be defined? I.e. how can it be differentiated from epistemic community?	2016
Non-Hierarchical Authority Delegation	Definitional	What is non-hierarchical authority delegation? How should it be defined?	2017
Norm Employment	Definitional	What is norm employment? How should it be defined?	2018
Normative Effects of Scientonomy	Descriptive	What are the normative effects of scientonomy on the process of scientific change?	2018
Normative Theory	Definitional	What is normative theory? How should it be defined?	2015
One-sided Authority Delegation	Definitional	What is one-sided authority delegation? How should it be defined?	2016
Outcome Inconclusive	Definitional	How should the theory assessment outcome inconclusive be defined?	2015
Outcome Not Satisfied	Definitional	How should the theory assessment outcome not satisfied be defined?	2017
Outcome Satisfied	Definitional	How should the theory assessment outcome satisfied be defined?	2017
Philosophy of Science - Demarcation	Descriptive	Can scientonomy as a descriptive empirical science of science be applied to solve the problem of demarcation?	2018
Philosophy of Science - Relativism	Descriptive	Can scientonomy as a descriptive empirical science of science be applied to solve the problem of scientific progress?	2018
Philosophy of Science - Scientific Progress	Descriptive	Can scientonomy as a descriptive empirical science of science be applied to solve the problem of scientific progress/relativism?	2018
Possibility of Scientonomy	Descriptive	How is scientonomy possible?	2015
Possibility of Scientonomy - Argument from Bad Track Record	Descriptive	How is scientonomy possible given the bad track record of previous attempts to create a general theory of scientific change?	2015
Possibility of Scientonomy - Argument from Changeability of Scientific Method	Descriptive	How can there be scientonomy if the methods of science are changeable?	2015
Possibility of Scientonomy - The Argument from Nothing Permanent	Descriptive	How can scientonomy be possible if there are no permanent features of science?	2015
Possibility of Scientonomy - The Argument from Social Construction	Descriptive	How is scientonomy possible if science is a social construction?	2015
Procedural Method	Definitional	What is procedural method? How should it be defined?	2015
Pursuit as Acceptance	Descriptive	Is the category of theory pursuit really distinct from that of theory acceptance?	2018
Question	Definitional	What is question? How should it be defined?	2018
Question Acceptance	Definitional	What does it mean to say that a question is accepted? How should question acceptance be defined?	2018
Question Pursuit	Definitional	What is question pursuit? How should it be defined?	2022
Reason	Definitional	What is reason? How should it be defined?	2019
Reducibility of Definitions	Descriptive	Are definitions somehow reducible to other epistemic elements, such as descriptive or normative theories?	2018
Role of Ethics in Scientific Change	Descriptive	What role do ethical concerns play in scientific change? Are ethical norms capable of affecting employed methods?	2016
Role of Methodology in Scientific Change	Descriptive	What role do methodologies play in scientific change? Are methodologies capable of affecting employed methods?	2015
Role of Non-Social and Environmental Factors in Scientific Change	Descriptive	In addition to interactions between people in a community, what role do interactions between people and their natural, non-social environment have on the process of scientific change?	2017
Role of Practical Considerations in Scientific Change	Descriptive	What is the role of practical considerations such as financial constraints or limitations of manpower in the process of scientific change?	2016
Role of Sociocultural Factors in Method Employment	Descriptive	What is the role of sociocultural factors, such as economics or politics, in the process of method employment?	2015
Role of Sociocultural Factors in Question Acceptance	Descriptive	What is the role of sociocultural factors, such as economics or politics, in the process of question acceptance?	2021
Role of Sociocultural Factors in Theory Acceptance	Descriptive	What is the role of sociocultural factors, such as economics or politics, in the process of theory acceptance?	2015
Scientific Change	Definitional	What is scientific change? How should it be defined?	2015
Scientific Community	Definitional	What is scientific community? How should it be defined?	2015
Scientific Mosaic	Definitional	What is scientific mosaic? How should it be defined?	2015
Scientonomic Workflow	Normative	How should changes in the accepted body of scientonomic knowledge be introduced? What are the steps and procedures of the scientonomic workflow?	2016
Scientonomy	Definitional	What is scientonomy? How should it be defined?	2016
Scope of Scientonomy - Acceptance Use and Pursuit	Normative	How ought a scientonomic theory deal with the various stances that a community might take towards a theory? Which stances towards a theory ought a scientonomic theory account for?	2015
Scope of Scientonomy - Construction and Appraisal	Normative	Ought the process of scientific change be viewed from the perspective of theory construction or that of theory appraisal?	2015
Scope of Scientonomy - Descriptive and Normative	Normative	Ought a scientonomic theory be descriptive or normative?	2015
Scope of Scientonomy - Explicit and Implicit	Normative	Ought a scientonomic theory account for only changes to explicit elements of the mosaic or must it also deal with changes in implicit elements that are not openly stated?	2015
Scope of Scientonomy - Individual and Social	Normative	Ought a scientonomic theory account for changes in the mosaics of individual scientists, the mosaics of communities, or both?	2015
Scope of Scientonomy - Mosaic Formation	Normative	Should Scientonomy tackle the question of the initial formation of a scientific mosaic?	2018
Scope of Scientonomy - Time Fields and Scale	Normative	For changes in the mosaic of what time period ought a scientonomic theory account? For changes in which fields of inquiry ought it to account? Ought it deal only in grand changes, or should it account for minor changes as well?	2015
Singular Authority Delegation	Definitional	What is singular authority delegation? How should it be defined?	2017
Social Level	Definitional	What is social level? How should it be defined?	2015
Sociocultural Factors	Definitional	What are sociocultural factors? How should they be defined?	2016
Static vs. Dynamic Methods	Descriptive	Are there any methods which are immune to change?	2015
Status of Tacit Theories	Descriptive	What is the status of tacit theories in the scientific mosaic? Is it possible for a community to actually accept a theory without openly formulating it?	2016
Status of Technological Knowledge	Descriptive	What is the status of technological knowledge in the scientific mosaic? Can technological knowledge be accepted into a mosaic?	2015
Subdiscipline	Definitional	What is subdiscipline? How should it be defined?	2021
Subquestion	Definitional	What is subquestion? How should it be defined?	2021
Substantive Method	Definitional	What is substantive method? How should it be defined?	2015
Subtypes of Acceptance Criteria	Descriptive	What are the subtypes of acceptance criteria?	2015
Subtypes of Accidental Group	Descriptive	What are the subtypes of an accidental group?	2016
Subtypes of Authority Delegation	Descriptive	What are the subtypes of authority delegation?	2016
Subtypes of Community	Descriptive	What are the subtypes of a community?	2016
Subtypes of Compatibility	Descriptive	What are the subtypes of compatibility?	2015
Subtypes of Compatibility Criteria	Descriptive	What are the subtypes of a compatibility criteria?	2015
Subtypes of Core Question	Descriptive	What are the subtypes of a core question?	2021
Subtypes of Core Theory	Descriptive	What are the subtypes of a core theory?	2021
Subtypes of Definition	Descriptive	What are the subtypes of a definition?	2018
Subtypes of Delineating Theory	Descriptive	What are the subtypes of a delineating theory?	2021
Subtypes of Demarcation Criteria	Descriptive	What are the subtypes of a demarcation criteria?	2015
Subtypes of Descriptive Theory	Descriptive	What are the subtypes of a descriptive theory?	2015
Subtypes of Discipline	Descriptive	What are the subtypes of a discipline?	2016
Subtypes of Discipline Acceptance	Descriptive	What are the subtypes of discipline acceptance?	2021
Subtypes of Element Decay	Descriptive	What are the subtypes of element decay?	2021
Subtypes of Epistemic Action	Descriptive	What are the subtypes of an epistemic action?	2023
Subtypes of Epistemic Agent	Descriptive	What are the subtypes of an epistemic agent?	2018
Subtypes of Epistemic Community	Descriptive	What are the subtypes of an epistemic community?	2016
Subtypes of Epistemic Element	Descriptive	What are the subtypes of an epistemic element?	2015
Subtypes of Epistemic Presupposition	Descriptive	What are the subtypes of an epistemic presupposition?	2019
Subtypes of Epistemic Stance	Descriptive	What are the subtypes of an epistemic stance?	2015
Subtypes of Error	Descriptive	What are the subtypes of an error?	2019
Subtypes of Explicable-Implicit	Descriptive	What are the subtypes of explicable-implicit?	2018
Subtypes of Explicit	Descriptive	What are the subtypes of explicit?	2018
Subtypes of Global Epistemic Action	Descriptive	What are the subtypes of a global epistemic action?	2023
Subtypes of Group	Descriptive	What are the subtypes of a group?	2016
Subtypes of Hierarchical Authority Delegation	Descriptive	What are the subtypes of hierarchical authority delegation?	2017
Subtypes of Implicit	Descriptive	What are the subtypes of implicit?	2018
Subtypes of Individual Epistemic Agent	Descriptive	What are the subtypes of an individual epistemic agent?	2019
Subtypes of Inexplicable	Descriptive	What are the subtypes of inexplicable?	2018
Subtypes of Local Action Availability	Descriptive	What are the subtypes of local action availability?	2023
Subtypes of Local Epistemic Action	Descriptive	What are the subtypes of a local epistemic action?	2023
Subtypes of Logical Presupposition	Descriptive	What are the subtypes of a logical presupposition?	2021
Subtypes of Method	Descriptive	What are the subtypes of a method?	2015
Subtypes of Method Hierarchy	Descriptive	What are the subtypes of a method hierarchy?	2019
Subtypes of Methodology	Descriptive	What are the subtypes of a methodology?	2015
Subtypes of Model	Descriptive	What are the subtypes of a model?	2016
Subtypes of Mosaic Merge	Descriptive	What are the subtypes of a mosaic merge?	2015
Subtypes of Mosaic Split	Descriptive	What are the subtypes of a mosaic split?	2015
Subtypes of Multiple Authority Delegation	Descriptive	What are the subtypes of multiple authority delegation?	2017
Subtypes of Mutual Authority Delegation	Descriptive	What are the subtypes of mutual authority delegation?	2016
Subtypes of Non-Epistemic Community	Descriptive	What are the subtypes of a non-epistemic community?	2016
Subtypes of Non-Hierarchical Authority Delegation	Descriptive	What are the subtypes of non-hierarchical authority delegation?	2017
Subtypes of Norm Employment	Descriptive	What are the subtypes of norm employment?	2018
Subtypes of Normative Theory	Descriptive	What are the subtypes of a normative theory?	2015
Subtypes of One-sided Authority Delegation	Descriptive	What are the subtypes of one-sided authority delegation?	2016
Subtypes of Outcome Inconclusive	Descriptive	What are the subtypes of outcome inconclusive?	2015
Subtypes of Procedural Method	Descriptive	What are the subtypes of a procedural method?	2015
Subtypes of Question	Descriptive	What are the subtypes of a question?	2018
Subtypes of Question Acceptance	Descriptive	What are the subtypes of question acceptance?	2018
Subtypes of Question Pursuit	Descriptive	What are the subtypes of question pursuit?	2022
Subtypes of Reason	Descriptive	What are the subtypes of a reason?	2019
Subtypes of Scientific Change	Descriptive	What are the subtypes of scientific change?	2015
Subtypes of Scientific Community	Descriptive	What are the subtypes of a scientific community?	2015
Subtypes of Scientific Mosaic	Descriptive	What are the subtypes of a scientific mosaic?	2015
Subtypes of Scientonomy	Descriptive	What are the subtypes of scientonomy?	2016
Subtypes of Singular Authority Delegation	Descriptive	What are the subtypes of singular authority delegation?	2017
Subtypes of Sociocultural Factors	Descriptive	What are the subtypes of a sociocultural factors?	2016
Subtypes of Subdiscipline	Descriptive	What are the subtypes of a subdiscipline?	2021
Subtypes of Subquestion	Descriptive	What are the subtypes of a subquestion?	2021
Subtypes of Substantive Method	Descriptive	What are the subtypes of a substantive method?	2015
Subtypes of Theory	Descriptive	What are the subtypes of a theory?	2015
Subtypes of Theory Acceptance	Descriptive	What are the subtypes of theory acceptance?	2015
Subtypes of Theory Decay	Descriptive	What are the subtypes of theory decay?	2021
Subtypes of Theory Pursuit	Descriptive	What are the subtypes of theory pursuit?	2015
Subtypes of Theory Use	Descriptive	What are the subtypes of theory use?	2015
Supertypes of Acceptance Criteria	Descriptive	What are the supertypes of acceptance criteria?	2015
Supertypes of Accidental Group	Descriptive	What are the supertypes of an accidental group?	2016
Supertypes of Authority Delegation	Descriptive	What are the supertypes of authority delegation?	2016
Supertypes of Community	Descriptive	What are the supertypes of a community?	2016
Supertypes of Compatibility	Descriptive	What are the supertypes of compatibility?	2015
Supertypes of Compatibility Criteria	Descriptive	What are the supertypes of a compatibility criteria?	2015
Supertypes of Core Question	Descriptive	What are the supertypes of a core question?	2021
Supertypes of Core Theory	Descriptive	What are the supertypes of a core theory?	2021
Supertypes of Definition	Descriptive	What are the supertypes of a definition?	2018
Supertypes of Delineating Theory	Descriptive	What are the supertypes of a delineating theory?	2021
Supertypes of Demarcation Criteria	Descriptive	What are the supertypes of a demarcation criteria?	2015
Supertypes of Descriptive Theory	Descriptive	What are the supertypes of a descriptive theory?	2015
Supertypes of Discipline	Descriptive	What are the supertypes of a discipline?	2016
Supertypes of Discipline Acceptance	Descriptive	What are the supertypes of discipline acceptance?	2021
Supertypes of Element Decay	Descriptive	What are the supertypes of element decay?	2021
Supertypes of Epistemic Action	Descriptive	What are the supertypes of an epistemic action?	2023
Supertypes of Epistemic Agent	Descriptive	What are the supertypes of an epistemic agent?	2018
Supertypes of Epistemic Community	Descriptive	What are the supertypes of an epistemic community?	2016
Supertypes of Epistemic Element	Descriptive	What are the supertypes of an epistemic element?	2015
Supertypes of Epistemic Presupposition	Descriptive	What are the supertypes of an epistemic presupposition?	2019
Supertypes of Epistemic Stance	Descriptive	What are the supertypes of an epistemic stance?	2015
Supertypes of Error	Descriptive	What are the supertypes of an error?	2019
Supertypes of Explicable-Implicit	Descriptive	What are the supertypes of explicable-implicit?	2018
Supertypes of Explicit	Descriptive	What are the supertypes of explicit?	2018
Supertypes of Global Epistemic Action	Descriptive	What are the supertypes of a global epistemic action?	2023
Supertypes of Group	Descriptive	What are the supertypes of a group?	2016
Supertypes of Hierarchical Authority Delegation	Descriptive	What are the supertypes of hierarchical authority delegation?	2017
Supertypes of Implicit	Descriptive	What are the supertypes of implicit?	2018
Supertypes of Individual Epistemic Agent	Descriptive	What are the supertypes of an individual epistemic agent?	2019
Supertypes of Inexplicable	Descriptive	What are the supertypes of inexplicable?	2018
Supertypes of Local Action Availability	Descriptive	What are the supertypes of local action availability?	2023
Supertypes of Local Epistemic Action	Descriptive	What are the supertypes of a local epistemic action?	2023
Supertypes of Logical Presupposition	Descriptive	What are the supertypes of a logical presupposition?	2021
Supertypes of Method	Descriptive	What are the supertypes of a method?	2015
Supertypes of Method Hierarchy	Descriptive	What are the supertypes of a method hierarchy?	2019
Supertypes of Methodology	Descriptive	What are the supertypes of a methodology?	2015
Supertypes of Model	Descriptive	What are the supertypes of a model?	2016
Supertypes of Mosaic Merge	Descriptive	What are the supertypes of a mosaic merge?	2015
Supertypes of Mosaic Split	Descriptive	What are the supertypes of a mosaic split?	2015
Supertypes of Multiple Authority Delegation	Descriptive	What are the supertypes of multiple authority delegation?	2017
Supertypes of Mutual Authority Delegation	Descriptive	What are the supertypes of mutual authority delegation?	2016
Supertypes of Non-Epistemic Community	Descriptive	What are the supertypes of a non-epistemic community?	2016
Supertypes of Non-Hierarchical Authority Delegation	Descriptive	What are the supertypes of non-hierarchical authority delegation?	2017
Supertypes of Norm Employment	Descriptive	What are the supertypes of norm employment?	2018
Supertypes of Normative Theory	Descriptive	What are the supertypes of a normative theory?	2015
Supertypes of One-sided Authority Delegation	Descriptive	What are the supertypes of one-sided authority delegation?	2016
Supertypes of Procedural Method	Descriptive	What are the supertypes of a procedural method?	2015
Supertypes of Question	Descriptive	What are the supertypes of a question?	2018
Supertypes of Question Acceptance	Descriptive	What are the supertypes of question acceptance?	2018
Supertypes of Question Pursuit	Descriptive	What are the supertypes of question pursuit?	2022
Supertypes of Reason	Descriptive	What are the supertypes of a reason?	2019
Supertypes of Scientific Change	Descriptive	What are the supertypes of scientific change?	2015
Supertypes of Scientific Community	Descriptive	What are the supertypes of a scientific community?	2015
Supertypes of Scientific Mosaic	Descriptive	What are the supertypes of a scientific mosaic?	2015
Supertypes of Scientonomy	Descriptive	What are the supertypes of scientonomy?	2016
Supertypes of Singular Authority Delegation	Descriptive	What are the supertypes of singular authority delegation?	2017
Supertypes of Sociocultural Factors	Descriptive	What are the supertypes of a sociocultural factors?	2016
Supertypes of Subdiscipline	Descriptive	What are the supertypes of a subdiscipline?	2021
Supertypes of Subquestion	Descriptive	What are the supertypes of a subquestion?	2021
Supertypes of Substantive Method	Descriptive	What are the supertypes of a substantive method?	2015
Supertypes of Theory	Descriptive	What are the supertypes of a theory?	2015
Supertypes of Theory Acceptance	Descriptive	What are the supertypes of theory acceptance?	2015
Supertypes of Theory Decay	Descriptive	What are the supertypes of theory decay?	2021
Supertypes of Theory Pursuit	Descriptive	What are the supertypes of theory pursuit?	2015
Supertypes of Theory Use	Descriptive	What are the supertypes of theory use?	2015
Synchronism vs. Asynchronism of Method Employment	Descriptive	Which factors influence the process of method employment? Do new methods become accepted simultaneously with the acceptance of a theory?	2015
Synchronism vs. Asynchronism of Method Rejection	Descriptive	When a method is rejected, must it be the case that a theory has also been rejected?	2015
Tautological Status of Method Rejection theorem (Barseghyan-2015)	Descriptive	Is the method rejection theorem suggested by Barseghyan in 2015 a tautology?	2023
Tautological Status of Norm Rejection theorem (Pandey-2023)	Descriptive	Is the norm rejection theorem suggested by Pandey in 2023 a tautology?	2023
Tautological Status of Question Rejection theorem (Barseghyan-Levesley-2021)	Descriptive	Is the question rejection theorem suggested by Barseghyan and Levesley in 2021 a tautology?	2023
Tautological Status of Question Rejection theorem (Barseghyan-Levesley-Pandey-2023)	Descriptive	Is the question rejection theorem suggested by Barseghyan, Levesley, and Pandey in 2023 a tautology?	2023
Tautological Status of The First Law (Barseghyan-2015)	Descriptive	Is the first law suggested by Barseghyan in 2015 a tautology?	2016
Tautological Status of The First Law for Methods (Barseghyan-2015)	Descriptive	Is the first law for methods suggested by Barseghyan in 2015 a tautology?	2016
Tautological Status of The First Law for Norms (Barseghyan-Pandey-2023)	Descriptive	Is the first law for norms suggested by Barseghyan and Pandey in 2023 a tautology?	2023
Tautological Status of The First Law for Questions (Barseghyan-Pandey-2023)	Descriptive	Is the first law for questions suggested by Barseghyan and Levesley in 2021 a tautology?	2023
Tautological Status of The First Law for Theories (Barseghyan-2015)	Descriptive	Is the first law for theories suggested by Barseghyan in 2015 a tautology?	2016
Tautological Status of The First Law for Theories (Barseghyan-Pandey-2023)	Descriptive	Is the first law for theories suggested by Barseghyan and Pandey in 2023 a tautology?	2023
Tautological Status of The Law of Compatibility (Fraser-Sarwar-2018)	Descriptive	Is the law of compatibility suggested by Fraser and Sarwar in 2018 a tautology?	2018
Tautological Status of The Law of Theory Demarcation (Sarwar-Fraser-2018)	Descriptive	Is the law of theory demarcation as formulated by Sarwar and Fraser in 2018 a tautology?	2018
Tautological Status of The Second Law (Barseghyan-2015)	Descriptive	Is Barseghyan's original second law a tautology?	2013
Tautological Status of The Second Law (Patton-Overgaard-Barseghyan-2017)	Descriptive	Is the second law suggested by Patton, Overgaard, and Barseghyan in 2017 a tautology?	2017
Tautological Status of The Zeroth Law (Harder-2015)	Descriptive	Is Harder's zeroth law a tautology?	2016
Tautological Status of Theory Rejection theorem (Barseghyan-2015)	Descriptive	Is the theory rejection theorem suggested by Barseghyan in 2015 a tautology?	2023
Tautological Status of Theory Rejection theorem (Barseghyan-Pandey-2023)	Descriptive	Is the theory rejection theorem suggested by Barseghyan and Pandey in 2023 a tautology?	2023
The Necessity of Intercommunication for Community	Descriptive	If two independent communities undergo similar changes which result in identical mosaics, are these communities still considered as distinct, or are they a single community?	2016
The Necessity of Language in Community	Descriptive	Is a shared language, or propositional code, presupposed by the existence of an epistemic community?	2017
The Paradox of Normative Propositions	Descriptive	If methodologies are themselves theories that can be accepted by a community, then how can methods be deductive consequences of accepted theories, given that historically employed methods and accepted methodologies have often been inconsistent with one another?	2014
The Status of Holism and Ripple Effect	Descriptive	Is it the case that changes in one of the elements of a mosaic can have a "ripple effect" on the rest of the mosaic?	2018
Theories Shaping Core Questions	Descriptive	How do theories within a discipline shape and change the core questions of the disciplines?	2021
Theory	Definitional	What is theory? How should it be defined?	2015
Theory Acceptance	Definitional	What does it mean to say that a theory is accepted? How should theory acceptance be defined?	2015
Theory Assessment Outcomes	Descriptive	What outcomes can possibly obtain as a result of an assessment of a theory by a method? What is the complete list of theory assessment outcomes?	2015
Theory Decay	Definitional	What is theory decay? How should it be defined?	2021
Theory Pursuit	Definitional	What does it mean to say that a theory is pursued? How should theory pursuit be defined?	2015
Theory Use	Definitional	What does it mean to say that a theory is used? How should theory use be defined?	2015
Workflow - Goals of Peer Review	Normative	Should peer reviewers evaluate a submitted paper for the pursuitworthiness or acceptability of the content of the paper?	2019
Workflow - Handling Ripple Effects	Normative		2019
Workflow - Publishing Modification Comments	Normative	Should the discussions concerning a suggested modification be published? If so, when and how should they be published?	2019
Workflow - Reformulating Suggesting Modifications	Normative	Are the commentators of suggested modifications allowed to suggest reformulations of the original formulations?	2019

References

^ Barseghyan, Hakob. (2015) The Laws of Scientific Change. Springer.