Status of Disciplinary Boundaries

How do disciplinary boundaries exist within the scientific mosaic?

Nicholas Overgaard explains the topic

The scientific mosaic consists of the set of all accepted theories and employed methods at some particular time. How do disciplinary boundaries exist within the mosaic. Perhaps as theories?

In the scientonomic context, this term was first used by Hakob Barseghyan in 2016. The term is currently accepted by Scientonomy community.

Scientonomic History

Acceptance Record

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Community	Accepted From	Acceptance Indicators	Still Accepted	Accepted Until	Rejection Indicators
Scientonomy	1 April 2016	It was acknowledged as an open question by the Scientonomy Seminar 2016.	Yes

All Theories

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Theory	Formulation	Formulated In
Discipline (Patton-Al-Zayadi-2021)	A discipline is characterized by (1) a non-empty set of core questions Q and (2) the delineating theory stating that Q are the core questions of the discipline.	2021

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Accepted Theories

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Suggested Modifications

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Modification	Community	Date Suggested	Summary	Verdict	Verdict Rationale	Date Assessed
Sciento-2021-0006	Scientonomy	1 August 2021	Accept new definitions of subquestion, core question, core theory, discipline, delineating theory, subdiscipline, and discipline acceptance.	Open

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