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Are there methods that are necessarily part of any mosaic? What methods, if any, are ''necessary'' for the process of scientific change to occur? +
Are there normative theories that are necessarily part of any mosaic? What normative theories, if any, are ''necessary'' for the process of scientific change to occur? +
Are there questions that are necessarily part of any mosaic? What questions, if any, are ''necessary'' for the process of scientific change to occur? +
Are there theories that are necessarily part of any mosaic? +
What is '''non-epistemic community'''? How should it be ''defined''? I.e. how can it be differentiated from ''epistemic community''? +
What is '''non-hierarchical authority delegation'''? How should it be ''defined''? +
What is '''norm employment'''? How should it be ''defined''? +
What are the normative effects of scientonomy on the process of scientific change? +
What is '''normative inference'''? How should it be ''defined''? +
What is '''normative theory'''? How should it be ''defined''? +
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What is '''one-sided authority delegation'''? How should it be ''defined''? +
What is the '''ontology''' of scientific change? What are the fundamental ''entities'', ''processes'', and ''relations'' of scientific change? +
How should the theory assessment outcome '''accept''' be defined? +
How should the theory assessment outcome '''inconclusive''' be defined? +
How should the theory assessment outcome '''not accept''' be defined? +
How should the theory assessment outcome '''not satisfied''' be defined? +
How should the theory assessment outcome '''satisfied''' be defined? +
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Can scientonomy as a descriptive empirical science of science be applied to solve ''the problem of demarcation''? +
Can scientonomy as a descriptive empirical science of science be applied to solve ''the problem of scientific progress''? +
Can scientonomy as a descriptive empirical science of science be applied to solve ''the problem of scientific progress/relativism''? +
How is scientonomy ''possible''? +
How is scientonomy possible given the bad track record of previous attempts to create a general theory of scientific change? +
How can there be scientonomy if the methods of science are changeable? +
Under which conditions do the patterns of scientific change emerge and hold? +
How can scientonomy be possible if there are no permanent features of science? +
How is scientonomy possible if science is a social construction? +
What is '''procedural method?''' How should it be ''defined?'' +
What is the relationship between the process of theory acceptance and that of theory pursuit? +
Is the category of theory pursuit really distinct from that of theory acceptance? +
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What does it mean to say that a question is '''accepted'''? How should ''question acceptance'' be ''defined''? +
What is '''question pursuit'''? How should it be ''defined''? +
What is the role of question acceptance in the mechanism of theory pursuit? +
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Are [[Definition|definitions]] somehow reducible to other epistemic elements, such as [[Descriptive Theory|descriptive]] or [[Normative Theory|normative]] theories? +
When epistemic communities cease to employ their methods, what happens to the theories previously accepted by the aforementioned methods? +
Do ''definitions'' play any distinct role in the process of scientific change, or do they only exhibit the exact same patterns as descriptive and normative theories? +
Is the process of ''question acceptance'' affected by ''employed methods''? +
What role do ethical concerns play in scientific change? Are ethical norms capable of affecting employed methods? +
What role do '''methodologies''' play in scientific change? Are methodologies capable of affecting employed methods? +
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? +
What is the role of '''practical considerations''' such as financial constraints or limitations of manpower in the process of scientific change? +
What is the role of ''sociocultural factors'', such as economics or politics, in the process of ''method employment''? +
What role do sociocultural factors play in a mosaic split? +
what is the role of ''sociocultural factors'', such as economics or politics, in the process of ''question acceptance''? +
What is the role of sociocultural factors, such as economics or politics, in the process of scientific change? +
What is the role of ''sociocultural factors'', such as economics or politics, in the process of ''theory acceptance''? +
Does the third law allow for methods to be deductive consequences of used theories? +
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What is '''scientific change'''? How should it be ''defined''? +
What is '''scientific community'''? Can it be defined as more than simply “the bearer of a mosaic”? +
What is '''scientific mosaic'''? How should it be ''defined''? +
What is '''scientificity'''? How should it be ''defined''? +
Can the epistemic stance of ''scientificity'' be taken towards ''methods''? Can there be unscientific or pseudoscientific methods? +
Can the epistemic stance of ''scientificity'' be taken towards ''questions''? Can there be unscientific or pseudoscientific questions? +
How should changes in the accepted body of scientonomic knowledge be introduced? What are the steps and procedures of the scientonomic workflow? +
What is '''scientonomy'''? How should it be defined? +
What types of phenomena ''should'' a scientonomic theory account for? +
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? +
''Ought'' the process of scientific change be viewed from the perspective of ''theory construction'' or that of ''theory appraisal''? +
Ought a scientonomic theory be ''descriptive'' or ''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? +
Ought a scientonomic theory account for changes in the mosaics of individual scientists, the mosaics of communities, or both? +
Should Scientonomy tackle the question of the initial formation of a scientific mosaic? +
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? +
Should observational scientonomy trace when a certain stance towards an epistemic element was taken ''explicitly'' or ''implicitly''? +
What is '''singular authority delegation'''? How should it be ''defined''? +
What is the ontology of the social agents of scientific change? How should we ''define'' such terms as ''group'', ''community'', ''scientific community'' etc.? +
What is '''social level?''' How should it be ''defined?'' +
What are '''sociocultural factors?''' How should they be ''defined?'' +
Are there any '''methods''' which are immune to change? +
What happens in situations where an abstract requirement can't be met? What do we do when we would like to keep certain theories but those theories are left in limbo? +
How does the relationship of multiple authority delegation apply to mutually delegating communities? Is there such a thing as ''multiple mutual authority delegation''? +
Are there actual instances of ''non-hierarchical authority delegation''? +
Do epistemic communities accept reasons during theory acceptance? If they do, what is the nature of the relationship between reasons and scientific change? Is it possible for a theory to remain accepted while the original reason for its acceptance is replaced by another? +
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? +
What is the status of '''technological knowledge''' in the ''scientific mosaic''? Can technological knowledge be ''accepted'' into a mosaic? +
What is '''subdiscipline'''? How should it be ''defined''? +
What is '''subquestion'''? How should it be ''defined''? +
What is '''substantive method?''' How should it be ''defined?'' +
What are the subtypes of an [[Acceptance Criteria|acceptance criteria]]? +
What are the subtypes of [[Authority Delegation|authority delegation]]? +
What are the subtypes of a [[Community|community]]? +
What are the subtypes of [[Compatibility|compatibility]]? +
What are the subtypes of a [[Compatibility Criteria|compatibility criteria]]? +
What are the subtypes of a [[Definition|definition]]? +
What are the subtypes of a [[Demarcation Criteria|demarcation criteria]]? +
What are the subtypes of a [[Descriptive Theory|descriptive theory]]? +
What are the subtypes of a [[Discipline|discipline]]? +
What are the subtypes of a [[Discipline Acceptance|discipline acceptance]]? +
What are the subtypes of [[Element Decay|element decay]]? +
What are the subtypes of an [[Epistemic Action|epistemic action]]? +
What are the subtypes of an [[Epistemic Agent|epistemic agent]]? +
What are the subtypes of an [[Epistemic Community|epistemic community]]? +
What are the subtypes of an [[Epistemic Element|epistemic element]]? +
What are the subtypes of an [[Epistemic Presupposition|epistemic presupposition]]? +
What are the subtypes of an [[Epistemic Stance|epistemic stance]]? +
What are the subtypes of an [[Epistemic Tool|epistemic tool]]? +
What are the subtypes of a [[Global Epistemic Action|global epistemic action]]? +
What are the subtypes of [[Hierarchical Authority Delegation|hierarchical authority delegation]]? +
What are the subtypes of an [[Individual Epistemic Agent|individual epistemic agent]]? +
What are the subtypes of [[Local Action Availability|local action availability]]? +
What are the subtypes of a [[Local Epistemic Action|local epistemic action]]? +
What are the subtypes of a [[Logical Presupposition|logical presupposition]]? +
What are the subtypes of a [[Method|method]]? +
What are the subtypes of a [[Method Hierarchy|method hierarchy]]? +
What are the subtypes of a [[Model|model]]? +
What are the subtypes of a [[Mosaic Merge|mosaic merge]]? +
What are the subtypes of a [[Mosaic Split|mosaic split]]? +
What are the subtypes of [[Norm Employment|norm employment]]? +
What are the subtypes of a [[Normative Theory|normative theory]]? +
What are the subtypes of an [[Outcome Inconclusive|outcome inconclusive]]? +
What are the subtypes of a [[Question|question]]? +
What are the subtypes of [[Question Acceptance|question acceptance]]? +
What are the subtypes of a [[Reason|reason]]? +
What are the subtypes of a [[Scientific Mosaic|scientific mosaic]]? +
What are the subtypes of a [[Scientificity|scientificity]]? +
What are the subtypes of a [[Theory|theory]]? +
What are the subtypes of [[Theory Acceptance|theory acceptance]]? +
What are the subtypes of [[Theory Decay|theory decay]]? +
What are the subtypes of a [[Theory Pursuit|theory pursuit]]? +
What are the subtypes of [[Theory Use|theory use]]? +
What are the subtypes of [[Tool Reliance|tool reliance]]? +
What is '''sufficient reason'''? How should it be ''defined''? +
What role do sufficient reasons play in theory acceptance? +
What are the supertypes of an [[Acceptance Criteria|acceptance criteria]]? +
What are the supertypes of [[Authority Delegation|authority delegation]]? +
What are the supertypes of a [[Community|community]]? +
What are the supertypes of [[Compatibility|compatibility]]? +
What are the supertypes of a [[Compatibility Criteria|compatibility criteria]]? +
What are the supertypes of a [[Definition|definition]]? +
What are the supertypes of a [[Demarcation Criteria|demarcation criteria]]? +
What are the supertypes of a [[Descriptive Theory|descriptive theory]]? +
What are the supertypes of a [[Discipline|discipline]]? +
What are the supertypes of a [[Discipline Acceptance|discipline acceptance]]? +
What are the supertypes of [[Element Decay|element decay]]? +
What are the supertypes of an [[Epistemic Action|epistemic action]]? +
What are the supertypes of an [[Epistemic Agent|epistemic agent]]? +
What are the supertypes of an [[Epistemic Community|epistemic community]]? +
What are the supertypes of an [[Epistemic Element|epistemic element]]? +
What are the supertypes of an [[Epistemic Presupposition|epistemic presupposition]]? +
What are the supertypes of an [[Epistemic Stance|epistemic stance]]? +
What are the supertypes of an [[Epistemic Tool|epistemic tool]]? +
What are the supertypes of an [[Explicit|explicit]]? +
What are the supertypes of a [[Global Epistemic Action|global epistemic action]]? +
What are the supertypes of [[Hierarchical Authority Delegation|hierarchical authority delegation]]? +
What are the supertypes of an [[Implicit|implicit]]? +
What are the supertypes of an [[Individual Epistemic Agent|individual epistemic agent]]? +
What are the supertypes of [[Local Action Availability|local action availability]]? +
What are the supertypes of a [[Local Epistemic Action|local epistemic action]]? +
What are the supertypes of a [[Logical Presupposition|logical presupposition]]? +
What are the supertypes of a [[Method|method]]? +
What are the supertypes of a [[Method Hierarchy|method hierarchy]]? +
What are the supertypes of a [[Model|model]]? +
What are the supertypes of a [[Mosaic Merge|mosaic merge]]? +
What are the supertypes of a [[Mosaic Split|mosaic split]]? +
What are the supertypes of [[Norm Employment|norm employment]]? +
What are the supertypes of a [[Normative Theory|normative theory]]? +
What are the supertypes of an [[Outcome Accept|outcome accept]]? +
What are the supertypes of a [[Question|question]]? +
What are the supertypes of [[Question Acceptance|question acceptance]]? +
What are the supertypes of a [[Reason|reason]]? +
What are the supertypes of a [[Scientific Mosaic|scientific mosaic]]? +
What are the supertypes of a [[Scientificity|scientificity]]? +
What are the supertypes of a [[Theory|theory]]? +
What are the supertypes of [[Theory Acceptance|theory acceptance]]? +
What are the supertypes of [[Theory Decay|theory decay]]? +
What are the supertypes of a [[Theory Pursuit|theory pursuit]]? +
What are the supertypes of [[Theory Use|theory use]]? +
What are the supertypes of [[Tool Reliance|tool reliance]]? +
Is it the case that acceptance of a theory necessarily implies that the theory also satisfied the demarcation criteria employed at the time of acceptance? +
Which factors influence the process of method employment? Do new methods become accepted simultaneously with the acceptance of a theory? +
When a '''method is rejected''', must it be the case that a theory has also been rejected? +
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Is the method rejection theorem suggested by Barseghyan in 2015 a tautology? +
Is the norm rejection theorem suggested by Pandey in 2023 a tautology? +
Is the question rejection theorem suggested by Barseghyan and Levesley in 2021 a tautology? +
Is the question rejection theorem suggested by Barseghyan, Levesley, and Pandey in 2023 a tautology? +
Is the first law suggested by Barseghyan in 2015 a tautology? +
Is the first law for methods suggested by Barseghyan in 2015 a tautology? +
Is the first law for norms suggested by Barseghyan and Pandey in 2023 a tautology? +
Is the first law for questions suggested by Barseghyan and Levesley in 2021 a tautology? +
Is the first law for theories suggested by Barseghyan in 2015 a tautology? +
Is the first law for theories suggested by Barseghyan and Pandey in 2023 a tautology? +
Is the law of compatibility suggested by Fraser and Sarwar in 2018 a tautology? +
Is the law of theory demarcation as formulated by Sarwar and Fraser in 2018 a tautology? +
Is Barseghyan's original second law a tautology? +
Is the second law suggested by Patton, Overgaard, and Barseghyan in 2017 a tautology? +
Is Harder's zeroth law a tautology? +
Is the theory rejection theorem suggested by Barseghyan in 2015 a tautology? +
Is the theory rejection theorem suggested by Barseghyan and Pandey in 2023 a tautology? +
What is '''technological theory'''? How should it be ''defined''? +
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? +
Is a shared language, or propositional code, presupposed by the existence of an epistemic community? +
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? +
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? +
How do theories within a discipline shape and change the core questions of the disciplines? +
What does it mean to say that a theory is '''accepted'''? How should ''theory acceptance'' be ''defined''? +
How do theories become accepted without a sufficient reason, i.e. in the cases of circularity or theories without a reason? +
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''? +
What is '''theory decay'''? How should it be ''defined''? +
Is it conceivable that, following the rejection of a method, that any theories which satisfied its requirements also would become rejected, seeing as how the reasons for belief in them no longer hold (in the eyes of the community)? +
What does it mean to say that a theory is '''pursued'''? How should ''theory pursuit'' be ''defined''? +
What does it mean to say that a theory is '''used'''? How should ''theory use'' be ''defined''? +
What is the relationship between the Compatibility Criteria for theories and for methods within the same Mosaic? +
What is '''tool reliance'''? How should it be ''defined''? +
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How should verdicts on suggested modifications be achieved? If modifications are accepted as a result of a ''communal consensus'', then what constitutes such a consensus? +
Should peer reviewers evaluate a submitted paper for the ''pursuitworthiness'' or ''acceptability'' of the content of the paper? +
Should the discussions concerning a suggested modification be published? If so, when and how should they be published? +
Are the commentators of suggested modifications allowed to suggest reformulations of the original formulations? +
