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- |Question=Are there theories that are necessarily part of any mosaic? |Question Title=Necessary Theories1 KB (160 words) - 15:43, 23 January 2023
- ...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 Theories2 KB (216 words) - 17:25, 22 January 2023
- ...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 Theories2 KB (216 words) - 17:37, 22 January 2023
- |Question=Is there a hierarchy of theories that determines hierarchical authority delegation, hierarchical anomaly-tol ...wn. The trans-historical prevalence of hierarchical structures surrounding theories suggests that these structures may not just be recurring accidents and thus9 KB (1,321 words) - 22:20, 4 November 2022
- ...n=What types of epistemic stances can be taken by epistemic agents towards theories? |Question Title=Epistemic Stances Towards Theories3 KB (437 words) - 20:19, 23 January 2023
- ...of epistemic stances can be taken by epistemic agents towards descriptive theories? |Question Title=Epistemic Stances Towards Descriptive Theories2 KB (212 words) - 22:17, 19 February 2023
- |Question=What is the status of '''tacit theories''' in the scientific mosaic? Is it possible for a community to actually acc1 KB (203 words) - 16:15, 21 February 2023
- ...es of epistemic stances can be taken by epistemic agents towards normative theories? |Question Title=Epistemic Stances Towards Normative Theories1 KB (200 words) - 20:02, 10 February 2023
- |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 an1 KB (181 words) - 22:44, 3 August 2021
- |Topic=Mechanism of Scientific Inertia for Theories |Title=The First Law for Theories12 KB (1,712 words) - 17:12, 2 November 2023
- |Question=What makes the theories of an agent's mosaic continue to remain in the mosaic? |Question Title=Mechanism of Scientific Inertia for Theories2 KB (214 words) - 23:32, 21 February 2023
- ...=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 theory1 KB (170 words) - 21:50, 18 March 2017
- |Topic=Epistemic Stances Towards Theories ...ed epistemic stances, the stance of ''scientificity'' can be taken towards theories.[[CiteRef::Sarwar and Fraser (2018)]]721 bytes (95 words) - 20:28, 23 January 2023
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- |Question=What makes the normative theories of an agent's mosaic continue to remain in the mosaic? |Question Title=Mechanism of Scientific Inertia for Normative Theories2 KB (214 words) - 19:38, 2 January 2024
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- |Topic=Mechanism of Scientific Inertia for Theories |Title=The First Law for Theories612 bytes (80 words) - 19:44, 2 January 2024
- |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::Barsegh1 KB (160 words) - 19:48, 23 January 2023
- |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?2 KB (268 words) - 22:51, 9 July 2017
- |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 (201 KB (158 words) - 19:51, 23 January 2023
- |Title=Question Can Presuppose Theories |Formulation Text=A [[Question|question]] can presuppose [[Theory|theories]].1 KB (182 words) - 16:01, 28 December 2022
- |Topic=Epistemic Stances Towards Theories ...ding to Barseghyan, acceptance as an epistemic stance can be taken towards theories.[[CiteRef::Barseghyan (2015)|pp. 30-32]]1 KB (165 words) - 19:48, 23 January 2023
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- |Topic=Epistemic Stances Towards Normative Theories ...temic stances that can in principle be taken by an epistemic agent towards theories of all types can also be taken towards norms. In addition to these more uni2 KB (223 words) - 20:32, 10 February 2023
- |Subject=The First Law for Theories (Barseghyan-2015) |Question=Is the first law for theories suggested by Barseghyan in 2015 a tautology?2 KB (264 words) - 20:24, 3 January 2024
- * [[Epistemic Stances Towards Theories - Theory Acceptance (Barseghyan-2015)]] * [[Epistemic Stances Towards Theories - Theory Pursuit (Barseghyan-2015)]]262 bytes (31 words) - 20:25, 23 January 2023
- |Topic=Tautological Status of The First Law for Theories (Barseghyan-2015) |Subject=The First Law for Theories (Barseghyan-2015)668 bytes (87 words) - 20:25, 3 January 2024
- |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?2 KB (219 words) - 20:49, 3 January 2024
- * [[Epistemic Stances Towards Theories - Scientificity (Sarwar-Fraser-2018)]] * [[Epistemic Stances Towards Theories - Theory Acceptance (Barseghyan-2015)]]339 bytes (38 words) - 20:27, 23 January 2023
- |Topic=Tautological Status of The First Law for Theories (Barseghyan-Pandey-2023) |Subject=The First Law for Theories (Barseghyan-Pandey-2023)700 bytes (89 words) - 20:50, 3 January 2024
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- * [[Epistemic Stances Towards Theories - Scientificity (Sarwar-Fraser-2018)]] * [[Epistemic Stances Towards Theories - Theory Acceptance (Barseghyan-2015)]]339 bytes (38 words) - 20:27, 23 January 2023
- |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 to743 bytes (100 words) - 01:15, 16 February 2017
- ...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 accep1 KB (155 words) - 02:30, 11 June 2020
- * [[Epistemic Stances Towards Theories - Theory Acceptance (Barseghyan-2015)]] * [[Epistemic Stances Towards Theories - Theory Pursuit (Barseghyan-2015)]]262 bytes (31 words) - 20:25, 23 January 2023
- ...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?1 KB (152 words) - 12:05, 5 November 2018
- |Topic=Mechanism of Scientific Inertia for Theories |Title=The First Law for Theories612 bytes (80 words) - 19:44, 2 January 2024
- |Topic=Tautological Status of The First Law for Theories (Barseghyan-2015) |Subject=The First Law for Theories (Barseghyan-2015)668 bytes (87 words) - 20:25, 3 January 2024
- |Topic=Tautological Status of The First Law for Theories (Barseghyan-Pandey-2023) |Subject=The First Law for Theories (Barseghyan-Pandey-2023)700 bytes (89 words) - 20:50, 3 January 2024
- ...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 method1 KB (174 words) - 00:15, 11 June 2020
- ...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 Theories2 KB (216 words) - 17:37, 22 January 2023
- |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?2 KB (219 words) - 20:49, 3 January 2024
- #REDIRECT [[Hierarchy of theories]]35 bytes (4 words) - 03:41, 25 October 2018
- |Title=The Structure of Scientific Theories successes, partly as a result of the pervasiveness of scientific theories.2 KB (224 words) - 01:08, 16 February 2017
- ..., 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 TS873 bytes (108 words) - 22:14, 19 February 2023
- ...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 Theories2 KB (216 words) - 17:25, 22 January 2023
- |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?2 KB (268 words) - 22:51, 9 July 2017
- |Subject=The First Law for Theories (Barseghyan-2015) |Question=Is the first law for theories suggested by Barseghyan in 2015 a tautology?2 KB (264 words) - 20:24, 3 January 2024
- ...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 th2 KB (273 words) - 16:11, 6 July 2017
- ...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 alternat1 KB (182 words) - 18:14, 12 March 2018
- ...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?2 KB (297 words) - 17:21, 16 October 2022
- ...es of epistemic stances can be taken by epistemic agents towards normative theories? |Question Title=Epistemic Stances Towards Normative Theories1 KB (200 words) - 20:02, 10 February 2023
- ...d ''theory'' and ''proposition'' as synonyms. In the scientonomic context, theories are considered fundamental elements of a mosaic. This leaves the question o1 KB (157 words) - 16:21, 21 February 2023
- ...establish the boundaries of a discipline by indicating which questions and theories are included. For example, the question 'how did living things originate as2 KB (210 words) - 14:09, 13 October 2022
- ...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>2 KB (352 words) - 10:57, 17 January 2024
- ...em to exhibit the same scientonomic patterns of change typical of accepted theories therein. Thus, I suggest that propositional technological knowledge can be2 KB (262 words) - 03:06, 24 January 2019
- |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 s1 KB (205 words) - 07:00, 7 March 2018
- ...r theory or theories. The question is: what are these erroneously accepted theories replaced by? For example, astronomical databases trivially reject inaccurat1 KB (208 words) - 03:09, 9 October 2021
- |Title=Question Can Presuppose Theories |Formulation Text=A [[Question|question]] can presuppose [[Theory|theories]].1 KB (182 words) - 16:01, 28 December 2022
- ...? Are there any general laws that govern this process, or is the choice of theories and methods completely arbitrary and random?2 KB (232 words) - 00:54, 3 June 2020
- ...tempt to provide descriptions of their respective objects, while normative theories attempt to prescribe a certain object, the latter being understood as a cer1 KB (203 words) - 23:31, 10 June 2020
- ...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 its3 KB (429 words) - 17:21, 20 October 2022
- |Title=Scientific Theories171 bytes (19 words) - 16:39, 15 June 2017
- |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 hav1 KB (171 words) - 01:20, 16 February 2017
- ...of the status of reasons. Are reasons theories? Are reasons theories about theories? Are they components of scientific mosaics?1 KB (217 words) - 14:13, 29 December 2022
- |Topic=Epistemic Stances Towards Theories ...ed epistemic stances, the stance of ''scientificity'' can be taken towards theories.[[CiteRef::Sarwar and Fraser (2018)]]721 bytes (95 words) - 20:28, 23 January 2023
- |Question=Are there theories that are necessarily part of any mosaic? |Question Title=Necessary Theories1 KB (160 words) - 15:43, 23 January 2023
- |Topic=Mechanism of Scientific Inertia for Normative Theories |Alternate Titles=The Law of Scientific Inertia for Normative Theories634 bytes (83 words) - 19:43, 2 January 2024
- |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 scie773 bytes (98 words) - 04:30, 19 January 2023
- |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::4 KB (589 words) - 17:31, 23 September 2023
- ...can only become rejected when it is replaced by an incompatible theory or theories.[[CiteRef::Barseghyan (2015)|pp. 167-172]] [[CiteRef::Fraser and Sarwar (201 KB (149 words) - 10:49, 17 January 2024
- ...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 [[Deline2 KB (304 words) - 16:54, 3 August 2021
- |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 an1 KB (181 words) - 22:44, 3 August 2021
- |Title=Historicist Theories of Scientific Rationality276 bytes (30 words) - 06:44, 14 August 2016
- |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 as1 KB (198 words) - 03:13, 11 March 2017
- |Title=After Popper, Kuhn and Feyerabend: Recent Issues in Theories of Scientific Method227 bytes (27 words) - 00:01, 14 August 2016
- ...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;2 KB (338 words) - 21:36, 14 March 2018
- |Title=The Structure of Scientific Theories206 bytes (24 words) - 15:11, 22 June 2017
- ...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.1 KB (178 words) - 19:54, 11 December 2022
- |Plural Capitalized=Technological Theories |Plural Lowercase=technological theories1 KB (174 words) - 20:34, 13 January 2023
- ...od follows. Therefore, an old method can be rejected only when some of the theories from which it follows are also rejected.</blockquote>1 KB (189 words) - 10:51, 17 January 2024