Acceptance Criteria

What is acceptance criteria? How should it be defined?

It is necessary to define acceptance criteria in order to understand the method of any scientific community. The definition of method suggests that it can consist of different criteria for theory assessment. The question is how acceptance criteria are different from other criteria of theory evaluation. Thus, it is a key concept in current Scientonomy.

In the scientonomic context, this term was first used by Hakob Barseghyan in 2015. The term is currently accepted by Scientonomy community.

In Scientonomy, the accepted definition of the term is:

• Criteria for determining whether a theory is acceptable or unacceptable.

Scientonomic History

Acceptance Record of the Term

Here is the complete acceptance record of this term (it includes all the instances when the term was accepted as a part of a community's taxonomy):

Community	Accepted From	Acceptance Indicators	Still Accepted	Accepted Until	Rejection Indicators
Scientonomy	1 January 2016	This is when the community accepted its first definition of the term, Acceptance Criteria (Barseghyan-2015).	Yes

All Definitions

The following definitions of acceptance criteria the term have been suggested:

Theory	Formulation	Formulated In
Acceptance Criteria (Barseghyan-2015)	Criteria for determining whether a theory is acceptable or unacceptable.	2015

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Accepted Definitions

The following definitions of acceptance criteria have been accepted:

Community	Theory	Formulation	Accepted From	Accepted Until
Scientonomy	Acceptance Criteria (Barseghyan-2015)	Criteria for determining whether a theory is acceptable or unacceptable.	1 January 2016

Suggested Modifications

According to our records, there have been no modifications suggesting a definition of acceptance criteria.

Current Definition

In Scientonomy, the accepted definition of the term is Acceptance Criteria (Barseghyan-2015).

Acceptance Criteria (Barseghyan-2015) states: "Criteria for determining whether a theory is acceptable or unacceptable."

Barseghyan provides a very minimal discussion of acceptance criteria by simply pointing out that these are the criteria that "are supposed to tell us whether a given theory is acceptable or unacceptable".1p. 9

Ontology

Existence

In Scientonomy, it is currently accepted that "There is such a thing as acceptance criteria."

Subtypes

In Scientonomy, there are currently no accepted subtypes of Acceptance Criteria.

Supertypes

In Scientonomy, there are currently no accepted supertypes of Acceptance Criteria.

Associations

In Scientonomy, the following association of Acceptance Criteria is currently accepted:

• An acceptance criterion is always part of some method.
  

Disjointness

In Scientonomy, no classes are currently accepted as disjoint with Acceptance Criteria.

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Dynamics

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Related Topics

This term is also related to the following topic(s):

• Mechanism of Theory Acceptance
• Mechanism of Scientific Change
• Demarcation Criteria
• Compatibility Criteria
• Scientific Change
• Theory Acceptance
• Theory
• Method