Category:Accepted Modification
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This category includes all accepted modification.
Here is the list of all accepted modifications:
Modification | Date Suggested | Summary | Verdict | Date Assessed |
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Sciento-2016-0001 | 3 September 2016 | Accept a new formulation of the third law to make it clear that employed methods do not have to be deducible from all accepted theories and employed methods but only from some. | Accepted | 21 January 2017 |
Sciento-2016-0003 | 7 September 2016 | Accept the notion of authority delegation. | Accepted | 1 February 2017 |
Sciento-2016-0004 | 7 September 2016 | Provided that the notion of authority delegation is accepted, accept the notions of mutual authority delegation and one-sided authority delegation as subtypes of authority delegation. | Accepted | 2 February 2018 |
Sciento-2017-0001 | 23 January 2017 | Accept new definitions for theory, normative theory, and descriptive theory. Also, modify the definition of methodology to reflect these changes. | Accepted | 15 February 2017 |
Sciento-2017-0002 | 23 January 2017 | Accept a new ontology of scientific change where the two fundamental elements are theories - both descriptive and normative - and methods. | Accepted | 15 February 2017 |
Sciento-2017-0003 | 27 January 2017 | Accept that licenses to teach [ʾijāzāt] are reliable indicators of which texts were considered authoritative in the Medieval Arabic scientific mosaic (MASM) in c. 750-1258 CE in the Abbasid caliphate. Thus, a proposition can be said to be accepted in MASM if the evidence of the licenses to teach [ʾijāzāt] indicates so. | Accepted | 16 October 2021 |
Sciento-2017-0004 | 5 February 2017 | Accept the reformulation of the second law which explicitly links theory assessment outcomes with theory acceptance/unacceptance. To that end, accept three new definitions for theory assessment outcomes (satisfied, not satisfied, and inconclusive) as well as the new ontology of theory assessment outcomes, and accept the new definition of employed method. | Accepted | 29 November 2017 |
Sciento-2017-0005 | 5 February 2017 | Accept that the new second law is not a tautology. | Accepted | 29 November 2017 |
Sciento-2017-0007 | 19 May 2017 | Accept the definitions of the following subtypes of authority delegation: singular authority delegation, multiple authority delegation, hierarchical authority delegation, and non-hierarchical authority delegation. | Accepted | 23 October 2018 |
Sciento-2017-0012 | 19 May 2017 | Accept a new taxonomy for group and its two sub-types - accidental group, and community. | Accepted | 2 February 2018 |
Sciento-2018-0001 | 12 May 2018 | Accept the definition of question as a topic of inquiry. | Accepted | 26 September 2018 |
Sciento-2018-0002 | 12 May 2018 | Accept the ontology of epistemic elements with theories, methods, and questions as distinct epistemic elements. | Accepted | 26 September 2018 |
Sciento-2018-0003 | 12 May 2018 | Accept that the epistemic stance that can be taken by an epistemic agent towards a question is question acceptance (the opposite is unacceptance), where question acceptance is defined as "a question is said to be accepted if it is taken as a legitimate topic of inquiry". | Accepted | 1 November 2018 |
Sciento-2018-0004 | 12 May 2018 | Accept the questions of the mechanism question acceptance and indicators of question acceptance as legitimate topics of scientonomic inquiry. | Accepted | 1 November 2018 |
Sciento-2018-0005 | 8 October 2018 | Accept the new definitions of method as a set of criteria for theory evaluation and methodology as a normative discipline that formulates the rules which ought to be employed in theory assessment. | Accepted | 1 September 2019 |
Sciento-2018-0006 | 8 October 2018 | Accept the new ontology of epistemic elements with, theories and questions are the two basic epistemic elements where and each theory is an attempt to answer a certain question, theories can be of three types – descriptive, normative, or definitions, and methods are a subtype of normative theory. | Accepted | 1 September 2019 |
Sciento-2018-0007 | 8 October 2018 | Accept the definition of definition as a statement of the meaning of a term. | Accepted | 1 September 2019 |
Sciento-2018-0008 | 8 October 2018 | Accept the definition of norm employment. | Accepted | 1 September 2019 |
Sciento-2018-0009 | 8 October 2018 | Accept the new definition of scientific mosaic as a set of all epistemic elements accepted and/or employed by the epistemic agent. | Accepted | 17 May 2020 |
Sciento-2018-0010 | 8 October 2018 | Accept that epistemic stances of all types can be taken explicitly and/or implicitly and that epistemic elements of all types can be explicit and/or implicit. | Accepted | 1 September 2019 |
Sciento-2018-0011 | 28 December 2018 | Accept the three-fold distinction between explicit, explicable-implicit, and inexplicable. | Accepted | 1 September 2019 |
Sciento-2018-0012 | 28 December 2018 | Accept that propositional technological knowledge – i.e. technological questions, theories, and methods – can be part of a mosaic. | Accepted | 11 February 2020 |
Sciento-2018-0015 | 28 December 2018 | Accept the definition of compatibility, as the ability of two elements to coexist in the same mosaic. Also replace the zeroth law with the compatibility corollary. | Accepted | 3 June 2020 |
Sciento-2018-0016 | 28 December 2018 | Accept compatibility as a distinct epistemic stance that can be taken towards epistemic elements of all types. Also accept that compatibility is binary, reflexive, and symmetric. Transitivity of compatibility holds only within mosaics, not in general. | Accepted | 1 October 2021 |
Sciento-2018-0017 | 28 December 2018 | Accept the new definition of compatibility criteria as criteria for determining whether two elements are compatible or incompatible. | Accepted | 11 October 2020 |
Sciento-2018-0018 | 28 December 2018 | Accept the new dynamic law of compatibility which specifies how exactly two elements become to be considered compatible or incompatible within a mosaic. | Accepted | 9 October 2021 |
Sciento-2019-0001 | 22 December 2019 | Accept that the goal of peer-reviews in the scientonomic workflow is evaluation for pursuitworthiness rather than acceptability. | Accepted | 25 February 2023 |
Sciento-2019-0002 | 22 December 2019 | Accept that the discussions concerning a suggested modification are to be published once a communal verdict is available. The discussions are to be published in the journal as special commentary articles co-authored by all participants of the discussion or in special edited collections. | Accepted | 25 February 2023 |
Sciento-2019-0003 | 22 December 2019 | Accept that the commentators of suggested modifications are allowed to suggest reformulations of the original formulations. Also accept that, by default, the new formulation should bear the original author’s name, unless the author decides to give credit to those who significantly contributed to the new reformulation. This should be decided collegially by the author, the commentators, and the editors on a case-by-case basis. | Accepted | 25 February 2023 |
Sciento-2019-0006 | 22 December 2019 | Accept that the encyclopedia editors are to be granted official housekeeping rights to handle the ripple effects. Also accept that if the additional required changes are implicit in the suggested modification, the editors should create and alter encyclopedia pages to ensure that the accepted body of scientonomic knowledge is properly documented; if it is conceivable to accept the modification without accepting the ripple effect change in question, the editors should register these changes as new suggested modifications so that the community can discuss and evaluate them in an orderly fashion. | Accepted | 25 February 2023 |
Sciento-2019-0007 | 22 December 2019 | Accept that the verdict on suggested modifications is to be decided by a communal vote that will follow the discussion period. Have a communal discussion and decide as to what percentage of votes it should take for a modification to be accepted - a simple majority (50% +1), or supermajority of three fifths (60%), two thirds (67%), or three quarters (75%). Also discuss to decide as to how long the discussion period and the voting period should be. | Accepted | 25 February 2023 |
Sciento-2019-0014 | 26 December 2019 | Accept the new definition of epistemic agent as an agent capable of taking epistemic stances towards epistemic elements. | Accepted | 11 October 2020 |
Sciento-2019-0015 | 26 December 2019 | Accept that there are two types of epistemic agents – individual and communal. Also accept the question of applicability of the laws of scientific change to individuals as a legitimate topic of scientonomic inquiry. | Accepted | 10 January 2022 |
Sciento-2019-0017 | 26 December 2019 | Accept the definitions of authority delegation, and its subtypes, that generalize the currently accepted definitions to apply to all epistemic agents, rather than only communities. | Accepted | 6 February 2023 |
Sciento-2021-0001 | 1 August 2021 | Accept the definitions of logical presupposition and epistemic presupposition. | Accepted | 6 February 2023 |
Sciento-2021-0003 | 1 August 2021 | Accept the definition of error, stating that an epistemic agent is said to commit an error if the agent accepts a theory that should not have been accepted given that agent’s employed method. | Accepted | 8 October 2021 |
Sciento-2021-0004 | 1 August 2021 | Accept that the handling of scientific error, as defined by Machado-Marques and Patton, is compatible with the theory rejection theorem. | Accepted | 8 October 2021 |
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Pages in category "Accepted Modification"
The following 35 pages are in this category, out of 35 total.
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