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Currently, "scientific change" denotes to any change in a [[Scientific Mosaic|scientific mosaic]], be that a transition from one accepted theory to another or from one employed method to another. | Currently, "scientific change" denotes to any change in a [[Scientific Mosaic|scientific mosaic]], be that a transition from one accepted theory to another or from one employed method to another. | ||
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== Open Questions == | == Open Questions == | ||
Revision as of 17:29, 1 March 2016
Scientific change is defined as any change in a scientific mosaic, i.e. a transition from one accepted theory to another or from one employed method to another.
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Currently, "scientific change" denotes to any change in a scientific mosaic, be that a transition from one accepted theory to another or from one employed method to another.
Open Questions
• This definition is problematic as it inadvertently qualifies every change in a mosaic as scientific. However, it is clear that not all changes in a mosaic are scientific; some changes might take place in violation of the laws of scientific change. By current definition, even the most outrageous cases of politically influenced changes in a mosaic (e.g. the Lysenko case) quality as scientific. Now, how can the definition of "scientific change" be modified to exclude unscientific changes in a mosaic? In particular, how can it be accomplished without turning the laws of scientific change into tautologies?
