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|Question=Is there a hierarchy of theories that determines hierarchical authority delegation, hierarchical anomaly-tolerance, compatibility criteria or theory acceptance criteria?
|Topic Type=Descriptive
|Description=Relations between theories evidently exist within mosaics. However, whether these relations are simply pure historical coincidence, the results of communal or sociological behaviours, or patterns emerging from the way science changes (the laws of scientific change) is unknown. The trans-historical prevalence of hierarchical structures surrounding theories suggests that these structures may not just be recurring accidents and thus not a topic reserved exclusively for observational Scientonomyscientonomy, but one also for theoretical Scientonomyscientonomy.
Whether or not these hierarchical structures can be explained theoretically within the theory of scientific change is yet to be attempted. However, it does seem that such hierarchical structures exist and that it can be integrated into the TSC. This could, for example, add another aspect or dimension to the scientific mosaic, making it no longer a simple set of theories, but perhaps an ordering (hierarchy) of theories.
