Difference between revisions of "Epistemic Elements - Theories and Methods (Barseghyan-2015)"
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| + | |Topic=Epistemic Elements | ||
| + | |Theory Type=Descriptive | ||
|Title=Epistemic Elements - Theories and Methods | |Title=Epistemic Elements - Theories and Methods | ||
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| + | |Authors List=Hakob Barseghyan | ||
| + | |Formulated Year=2015 | ||
|Formulation Text=The two classes of elements that can undergo scientific change are accepted theories (as a set of propositions that attempts to describe something) and employed methods (as a set of criteria for theory evaluation). | |Formulation Text=The two classes of elements that can undergo scientific change are accepted theories (as a set of propositions that attempts to describe something) and employed methods (as a set of criteria for theory evaluation). | ||
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| − | + | |Description=According to Barseghyan's original ontology, "at any moment of time, there are certain theories and certain methods employed in theory assessment".[[CiteRef::Barseghyan (2015)|p.5]] In that ontology, [[Theory|theories]] and [[Method|methods]] are the two types of elements that undergo scientific change; as such, they constitute the ontology of scientific change. Importantly, in this ontology, the class of theories only includes ''descriptive'' propositions; ''normative'' propositions (such as those of ethics or methodology) are left out of the ontology. | |
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| − | |Description=According to Barseghyan, "at any moment of time, there are certain theories and certain methods employed in theory assessment".[[CiteRef::Barseghyan (2015)|p.5]] | ||
|Resource=Barseghyan (2015) | |Resource=Barseghyan (2015) | ||
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According to Barseghyan's original ontology, "at any moment of time, there are certain theories and certain methods employed in theory assessment".1p.5 In that ontology, theories and methods are the two types of elements that undergo scientific change; as such, they constitute the ontology of scientific change. Importantly, in this ontology, the class of theories only includes descriptive propositions; normative propositions (such as those of ethics or methodology) are left out of the ontology.
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- ^ Barseghyan, Hakob. (2015) The Laws of Scientific Change. Springer.
