Acceptance Criteria (Barseghyan-2015)

This is a definition of Acceptance Criteria that states "Criteria for determining whether a theory is acceptable or unacceptable."

This definition of Acceptance Criteria was formulated by Hakob Barseghyan in 2015.1 It is currently accepted by Scientonomy community as the best available definition of the term.

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Community	Accepted From	Acceptance Indicators	Still Accepted	Accepted Until	Rejection Indicators
Scientonomy	1 January 2016	The definition became de facto accepted by the community at that time together with the whole theory of scientific change.	Yes

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Acceptance Criteria (Barseghyan-2015) is an attempt to answer the following question: What is acceptance criteria? How should it be defined?

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Description

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

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