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• Theory Pursuit (Barseghyan-2015)
  {{Theory |Theory Type=Definition
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• Mechanism of Norm Employment
  |Question=How do [[Normative Theory|norms]] become [[Norm Employment|employed]] by an epistemic agent? ...lin]] all suggested that our theories about the world shape our methods of theory evaluation.
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• Mechanism of Theory Rejection
  ...ange]]. Any theory of scientific change requires a means to explain how a theory becomes rejected. |Prehistory=The question about the rejection of theories has been an important one throughout the history of science. Many philosophers
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• Mechanism of Mosaic Split
  ...teRef::Barseghyan (2015)|p. 202]] Such contender theories are said to be [[Theory Pursuit|pursued]]. What makes the situation in the case of the 18th century ...an enigma for historians and philosophers of science, although the problem has been known about for some time. In the ''Categories'' for example, Aristotl
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• Discipline
  ...e as a mere definition of a discipline, a description of what a discipline has been doing, or a normative prescription of what a discipline ought to do. F * '''description''': physics ''has been'' studying the nature and properties of matter and energy;
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• Role of Sociocultural Factors in Theory Acceptance
  ...ociocultural factors'', such as economics or politics, in the process of ''theory acceptance''? ...ience. Can social, political, and economic factor influence the process of theory acceptance and method employment?
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• Determinism vs. Underdeterminism in Scientific Change
  ...accepted theories and employed methods of a given community. This position has been held by many philosophers since at least Leibniz, as pointed out by La ...the deterministic view – Descartes challenged it (albeit not specifically related to scientific change) with his evil demon, and Mill actually expressed a lu
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• Scope of Scientonomy - Individual and Social
  |Question=Ought a scientonomic theory account for changes in the mosaics of individual scientists, the mosaics of ...should a scientonomic theory trace and account for? Should a scientonomic theory concern itself only with individual scientists, only with communities, or b
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• Scientific Underdeterminism theorem (Barseghyan-2015)
  {{Theory |Theory Type=Descriptive
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• Mechanism of Theory Acceptance
  |Subject=Theory Acceptance |Question=How do [[Theory|theories]] become [[Theory Acceptance|accepted]] into a mosaic?
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• Scope of Scientonomy - Time Fields and Scale
  ...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? Ou ...iption=A scientonomic theory could account for all changes that the mosaic has undergone since antiquity, or only those undergone since the scientific rev
  5 KB (781 words) - 19:36, 30 November 2018
• Role of Methodology in Scientific Change
  ...or theory acceptance are often different than the implicit requirements of theory acceptance within any given scientific community. It is currently accepted ...xistence of unobservable entities. However, physicists in the 19th century has accepted the existence of numerous unobservable entities such as natural se
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• Ontology of Scientific Change
  ...''elements''. For instance, we can say that the Paris community of 1720 [[Theory Acceptance|accepted]] [[René Descartes|Cartesian natural philosophy]]. In ...hat the only epistemic elements capable of change in their ontology were [[Theory|scientific theories]].[[CiteRef::Schlick (1931)|pp.145-162]] A similar onto
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• Imre Lakatos
  ...opher of science who greatly contributed to the problem of demarcation and theory choice in science ...of Scientific Research Programmes'']] (MSRP) offers a holistic approach to theory choice which extends beyond Popper's falsificationism. It assesses a parti
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• Mechanism of Scientific Change
  ...neral theory that attempts to explain changes in a certain domain normally has two major ingredients – an ontology of the entities and relations that po ...rist view of science, which they supposed was incompatible with a coherent theory of scientific change.
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• Hierarchy of Theories
  ...rity delegation, hierarchical anomaly-tolerance, compatibility criteria or theory acceptance criteria? ...ot these hierarchical structures can be explained theoretically within the theory of scientific change is yet to be attempted. However, it does seem that suc
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• George Sarton
  Sarton himself had a unique, though idiosyncratic, theory of scientific change, especially with regard to the interaction between sci |Major Contributions=The way the work of George Sarton has influenced views of scientific change mainly involve the way scientific cha
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• Larry Laudan
  ...[[Method|methods]] of theory evaluation change together with scientific [[Theory|theories]] and goals of scientific inquiry in a piecemeal rational fashion. ...not a theory's ability to predict novel phenomena ''per se'' that gets the theory accepted, but its ability to solve more empirical or conceptual problems (o
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• John Herschel
  ...autious inductive methods. Given the apparent success of at least the wave theory of light, they had to be pursued, if not necessarily accepted, as scientifi ...t description of his views on the goal of science, theory construction and theory appraisal. Some authors have also compared the methods outlined therein to
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• Bearers of Mosaic
  ...) [[CiteRef::Locke (2015)]] produced classic works on these matters. Their theory of ideas maintained that all of our experiences were of ideas in our own mi ...ction within a community as means to knowledge. He formulated a consensual theory of truth, in which the acceptance of the truth of a proposition depends on
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