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|Prehistory=In the historical literature, many different words have been used to describe the attitudes a scientific community can take towards a theory, generally without any attempt to clarify their respective meanings. [[Thomas Kuhn]], for instance, used a number of equally vague words, including ''universally received'',''embraced'', ''acknowledged'', and ''committed'', to describe the status of a theory.[[CiteRef::Kuhn (1970c)|pp. 10-13]] [[Larry Laudan]] and [[Stephen Wykstra]] were among the first who distinguished between the ''acceptance'' and the ''pursuit'' of a theory.[[CiteRef::Laudan (1977a)|pp. 108-114]][[CiteRef::Wykstra (1980)|p. 216]] [[Hakob Barseghyan]] and [[Jamie Shaw]] have argued that a similar distinction was implicit in the work of [[Imre Lakatos]], although Lakatos did not explicitly draw the distinction.[[CiteRef::Barseghyan (2015)|p. 33]][[CiteRef::Barseghyan and Shaw (2017)]]