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  • * [[Epistemic Stances Towards Theories - Scientificity (Sarwar-Fraser-2018)]] * [[Epistemic Stances Towards Theories - Theory Acceptance (Barseghyan-2015)]]
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  • |Title=What Scientific Theories Could not be ...icular, this view equates theories that are distinct, and it distinguishes theories that are equivalent. Furthermore, the semantic view lacks the resources to
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  • ...accepted without a sufficient reason, i.e. in the cases of circularity or theories without a reason? ...ut another theory as a reason. In cases of circular reasoning, two or more theories seem to be reasons for one another, without an independent reason for accep
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  • * [[Epistemic Stances Towards Theories - Theory Acceptance (Barseghyan-2015)]] * [[Epistemic Stances Towards Theories - Theory Pursuit (Barseghyan-2015)]]
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  • ...n epistemic communities cease to employ their methods, what happens to the theories previously accepted by the aforementioned methods? ...er theories. Is this indeed the case when the methods used to assess those theories are no longer employed?
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  • |Topic=Mechanism of Scientific Inertia for Theories |Title=The First Law for Theories
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  • |Topic=Tautological Status of The First Law for Theories (Barseghyan-2015) |Subject=The First Law for Theories (Barseghyan-2015)
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  • |Topic=Tautological Status of The First Law for Theories (Barseghyan-Pandey-2023) |Subject=The First Law for Theories (Barseghyan-Pandey-2023)
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  • ...requirements of methods that are higher in the hierarchy are preferred to theories that satisfy the requirements of methods that are lower in the hierarchy. ...archy. If such a theory is not found, the agent is then prepared to accept theories that satisfy even the even less stringent requirements of the third method
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  • ...riptive theories that are necessarily part of any mosaic? What descriptive theories, is any, are ''necessary'' for the process of scientific change to occur? |Question Title=Necessary Descriptive Theories
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  • |Subject=The First Law for Theories (Barseghyan-Pandey-2023) |Question=Is the first law for theories suggested by Barseghyan and Pandey in 2023 a tautology?
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  • #REDIRECT [[Hierarchy of theories]]
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  • |Title=The Structure of Scientific Theories successes, partly as a result of the pervasiveness of scientific theories.
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  • ..., many theories attempt to describe something. Thus, there are descriptive theories.[[CiteRef::Barseghyan (2015)|p. 5]] |Acceptance Indicators=The existence of descriptive theories became accepted together with the acceptance of the rest of the original TS
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  • ...normative theories that are necessarily part of any mosaic? What normative theories, if any, are ''necessary'' for the process of scientific change to occur? |Question Title=Necessary Normative Theories
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  • |Question=Is the theory of scientific change applicable to theories construed as sets of models, or in ways that reject their purely formal cha ...f scientific change compatible with these more recent and broader views of theories?
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  • |Subject=The First Law for Theories (Barseghyan-2015) |Question=Is the first law for theories suggested by Barseghyan in 2015 a tautology?
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  • ...tonomy that it should explain changes in the scientific mosaic of accepted theories and employed methods, which are changes at the level of the scientific comm ...instein, and the changes in their beliefs as they constructed and assessed theories, [[Scientific Change|changes to the scientific mosaic itself]] happen at th
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  • ...e met? What do we do when we would like to keep certain theories but those theories are left in limbo? ...know they are being operated on. Surely we do not outright reject surgical theories on the basis they cannot be tested in this way? Do we develop some alternat
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  • ...tion=Is it conceivable that, following the rejection of a method, that any theories which satisfied its requirements also would become rejected, seeing as how ...eories that became accepted due to it? What does a community do with these theories? Do they remain accepted? Are they assessed by another method?
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  • ...es of epistemic stances can be taken by epistemic agents towards normative theories? |Question Title=Epistemic Stances Towards Normative Theories
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  • ...d ''theory'' and ''proposition'' as synonyms. In the scientonomic context, theories are considered fundamental elements of a mosaic. This leaves the question o
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  • ...establish the boundaries of a discipline by indicating which questions and theories are included. For example, the question 'how did living things originate as
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  • ...scenario when a theory can no longer remain in the mosaic, i.e. when other theories which are incompatible with that theory become accepted.</blockquote>
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  • ...em to exhibit the same scientonomic patterns of change typical of accepted theories therein. Thus, I suggest that propositional technological knowledge can be
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  • |Question=What is the relationship between the Compatibility Criteria for theories and for methods within the same Mosaic? ...th each other. However, it is not clear whether compatibility for [[Theory|theories]], and compatibility criteria for [[Method|methods]], must be the same or s
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  • ...r theory or theories. The question is: what are these erroneously accepted theories replaced by? For example, astronomical databases trivially reject inaccurat
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  • |Title=Question Can Presuppose Theories |Formulation Text=A [[Question|question]] can presuppose [[Theory|theories]].
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  • ...? Are there any general laws that govern this process, or is the choice of theories and methods completely arbitrary and random?
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  • ...tempt to provide descriptions of their respective objects, while normative theories attempt to prescribe a certain object, the latter being understood as a cer
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  • ...sue theories as worthy of further development, or their decisions to treat theories as instrumentally useful? ...ces Towards Theories|epistemic stances that communities might take towards theories]] is likewise dealt with elsewhere. The normative question at issue, in its
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  • |Title=Scientific Theories
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  • |Title=Scientific Representation and the Semantic View of Theories view of theories, which is the currently most widely accepted account of theories and models, provides us with adequate answers to these questions. After hav
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  • ...of the status of reasons. Are reasons theories? Are reasons theories about theories? Are they components of scientific mosaics?
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  • |Topic=Epistemic Stances Towards Theories ...ed epistemic stances, the stance of ''scientificity'' can be taken towards theories.[[CiteRef::Sarwar and Fraser (2018)]]
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  • |Question=Are there theories that are necessarily part of any mosaic? |Question Title=Necessary Theories
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  • |Topic=Mechanism of Scientific Inertia for Normative Theories |Alternate Titles=The Law of Scientific Inertia for Normative Theories
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  • |Description=Theories are part of the process of scientific change. |Acceptance Indicators=The existence of theories became accepted together with the acceptance of the original theory of scie
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  • |Description=By reviewing the history of science, one can find that not all theories that interested scientists were accepted. For example, many physicists are ...s only, it became increasingly important to distinguish different types of theories in terms of their acceptance status in the scientific community [[CiteRef::
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  • ...can only become rejected when it is replaced by an incompatible theory or theories.[[CiteRef::Barseghyan (2015)|pp. 167-172]] [[CiteRef::Fraser and Sarwar (20
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  • ...ttempt to answer a certain question, and each question presupposes certain theories. Because of such hierarchical relations, it is possible to characterize a d A set, as such, can't be part of a scientific mosaic consisting of theories and questions. We, therefore, take a discipline to be defined by a [[Deline
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  • |Question=How do theories within a discipline shape and change the core questions of the disciplines? ...olutionary theory.[[CiteRef::Ereshefsky (2017)]] Thus, the question of how theories within a discipline shape and change core questions of the discipline is an
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  • |Title=Historicist Theories of Scientific Rationality
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  • |Title=Testing Theories of Scientific Change ...tain claims emerge unscathed - the existence and importance of large-scale theories (guiding assumptions) in the physical sciences for example. Others, such as
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  • |Title=After Popper, Kuhn and Feyerabend: Recent Issues in Theories of Scientific Method
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  • ...clear that employed methods don't necessarily follow from ''all'' accepted theories, but only from ''some''. ...eghyan-2015)|the third law]], employed methods are deducible from accepted theories, including methodologies;
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  • |Title=The Structure of Scientific Theories
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  • ...others. As the concept of ''core theory'' intends to capture these central theories of a discipline, it is helpful to have a proper definition of the term.
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  • |Plural Capitalized=Technological Theories |Plural Lowercase=technological theories
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  • ...od follows. Therefore, an old method can be rejected only when some of the theories from which it follows are also rejected.</blockquote>
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  • ...of epistemic stances can be taken by epistemic agents towards descriptive theories? |Question Title=Epistemic Stances Towards Descriptive Theories
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  • ...rtwined with scientific knowledge as accepted scientific and technological theories often jointly shape employed methods.
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  • |Title=The Problem of Appraising Scientific Theories: Three Approaches
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  • |Title=Are All Theories Equally Good? A Dialogue
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  • |Title=The Nature and Function of Scientific Theories
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  • ...ttempt to answer a certain question, and each question presupposes certain theories. It is sometimes the case that the questions ''Q<sub>B</sub>''of a broader
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  • |Title=On the Interpretation of Scientific Theories
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  • |Title=Theories of Scientific Method
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  • ...such as methodologies can be included in the scientific mosaic as accepted theories without generating a paradox and that neither the third nor zeroth laws of
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  • |Title=Late Medieval and Early Modern Corpuscular Matter Theories
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  • |Title=Testing Theories of Scientific Change
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  • |Title=Theories of Scientific Method: The Renaissance Through the Nineteenth Century
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  • ...ability, the rationality of scientific change and relativism, by exploring theories of the a priori I show how radical conceptual change can occur and defend t
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  • ...em to exhibit the same scientonomic patterns of change typical of accepted theories therein. Thus, propositional technological knowledge can be part of a mosai
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  • ...n=What types of epistemic stances can be taken by epistemic agents towards theories? |Question Title=Epistemic Stances Towards Theories
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  • ...e of these do in fact become accepted, it follows that all of the accepted theories are scientific.
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  • ...not be posited. However, the historical record actually shows that several theories positing unobservable entities did, in fact, become accepted during this pe ...the time was most likely ''hypothetico-deductive''. On the other hand, if theories do not require confirmed novel predictions to become accepted, then some ot
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  • |Title=Theories of Scientific Method from Plato to Mach: A Bibliographical Review
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  • ...is assumes that epsitemic stances can be taken by epistemic agents towards theories. |History=The idea that theories are subtypes of epistemic elements has been implicit in Barseghyan's origin
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  • ...norms, such as those of ethics, aesthetics, or methodology, are normative theories.[[CiteRef::Sebastien (2016)]] ...red part of the process of scientific change. [[Normative Theory|Normative theories]] were excluded from the ontology for their introduction appeared to be res
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  • ...e presupposed by a discipline's core questions, are that discipline's core theories. For our example, the theory in question would be The neo-Darwinian theory
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  • ..., ethics, or aesthetics.[[CiteRef::Barseghyan (2015)|pp. 3-5]] Examples of theories satisfying the definition include the theory that the Earth is round, Newto
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  • |Formulation Text=A set of all accepted ''theories'' and employed ''methods''. ...ntific change.[[CiteRef::Barseghyan (2015)|pp. 5-7]] The reason the set of theories and methods is called a “mosaic” and not, say, “system” is that the
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  • |Title=Conceptions of Ether: Studies in the History of Ether Theories, 1740-1900
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  • |Plural Capitalized=Descriptive Theories |Plural Lowercase=descriptive theories
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  • to account for the presuppositions of scientific theories by regimenting such theories within a logical framework so that the important role played
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  • ...ethod of science? What demarcates science from non-science? Can scientific theories provide true descriptions of the world? Is there scientific progress? What
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  • ...nces that can be made from the acceptance or unacceptance of two contender theories. ...y assessment outcomes from the acceptance or unacceptance of two contender theories:
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  • ...ple string theory receives little funding by comparison with other pursued theories. This might be because no one has yet identified a way of falsifying string ...e subjected to Lakatos’ criteria of theory choice. In essence, all pursued theories undergo evaluation of a methodology and are then judged irrational or ratio
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  • ...tic of questions. Further, I find that the attempts to reduce questions to theories introduce an infinite regress, where a theory is an attempt to answer a que
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  • ...e existence of theories of various types and is not limited to descriptive theories.
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  • ...stance]] that can be taken by [[Epistemic Agent|epistemic agents]] towards theories can also be taken towards definitions.
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  • |Description=Although both the theories and methods of science have changed over history and differ across discipl ...of laws governing the process of scientific change in a piecemeal fashion. Theories have, of course, proven themselves to be changeable. Methods of practicing
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  • ...elements’ to account for the fact that the compatibility criteria apply to theories, methods, and questions alike".[[CiteRef::Fraser and Sarwar (2018)|p. 72]] ...apparent in the case of general relativity vs. quantum physics where both theories are accepted as the best available descriptions of their respective domains
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  • |Topic=Epistemic Stances Towards Theories ...=According to Barseghyan, the epistemic stance of use can be taken towards theories, i.e. an epistemic agent can find a theory useful.[[CiteRef::Barseghyan (20
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  • ...a given point of time. Obviously, such a frame would include all accepted theories and all employed methods of the time. [[CiteRef::Barseghyan(2015)|p. 9]]
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  • |Description=If it is assumed that normative theories of all types have the capacity of being employed, then it is important to d |Related Topics=Epistemic Stances Towards Normative Theories
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  • ...hyan’s proposal]] that methods be subsumed under the category of normative theories, the third law no longer exhaustively covers all situations cases of employ ...part of the first-order theories of the mosaic or part of the second-order theories that range over the mosaic.
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  • |Title=The Semantic Conception of Theories and Scientific Realism
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  • |Topic=Epistemic Stances Towards Theories ...ording to Barseghyan, the epistemic stance of pursuit can be taken towards theories, i.e. an epistemic agent can find a theory pursuitworthy.[[CiteRef::Barsegh
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  • ...may be taken toward theories, and as such, in order to understand whether theories were considered as scientific or unscientific by a particular community, on ...and Fraser state that "scientists may presumably keep track of only those theories that are accepted ... Thus, there is a legitimate question concerning the i
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  • |Plural Capitalized=Normative Theories |Plural Lowercase=normative theories
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  • ...here exist pseudoscientific theories, which are a subclass of unscientific theories.[[CiteRef::Hansson (2017)]] It is important, therefore, to have a definitio ...oblematic... It is always possible to construct ''ad hoc'', non-scientific theories that answer a given [scientific] question. We could, for instance, answer t
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  • |Topic=Epistemic Stances Towards Theories ...ding to Barseghyan, acceptance as an epistemic stance can be taken towards theories.[[CiteRef::Barseghyan (2015)|pp. 30-32]]
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  • ==Theories==
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  • ...l discussion of the subjective ''reasons'' an agent may have for accepting theories. This paper explores these epistemic reasons and constructs a historically
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  • ...mechanics, and the standard model of particle physics. A variety of other theories are not accepted but are being pursued. These include various versions of s While a variety of unaccepted theories are typically pursued, accepted theories also typically continue to be pursued. General relativity has been the acce
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  • |Title=theories are sets of propositions ...opositions. Thus, from the perspective of our project, it is safe to treat theories as collections of propositions.
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  • ...w methods become employed when they are deductive consequences of accepted theories and at least one other employed method. Thus, the necessary (indispensable)
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  • ...=Does the third law allow for methods to be deductive consequences of used theories? ...a science that is growing and not ossified. Is it possible then, that used theories can be applied in method construction, or does this indicate that a theory
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