Epistemic Stances Towards Questions

What epistemic stances can be taken towards a question?

What are the types of stances that epistemic agents can take towards questions? For instance, can questions be accepted, used, pursued, employed, etc.?

In addition if it is possible to pursuit questions, would this be reducible to theory pursuit or vice versa? If both can be pursued, do they overlap? If they overlap completely, would the question of question pursuit be redundant?

In the scientonomic context, this question was first formulated by William Rawleigh and Intishar Kazi in 2018. The question is currently accepted as a legitimate topic for discussion by Scientonomy community. At the moment, the question has no accepted answer in Scientonomy.

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Acceptance Record

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Community	Accepted From	Acceptance Indicators	Still Accepted	Accepted Until	Rejection Indicators
Scientonomy	26 September 2018	The acceptance of questions as a distinct element of the scientonomic ontology indicates that the question of epistemic stances that can be taken towards questions became accepted.	Yes

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Theory	Formulation	Formulated In
Epistemic Stances Towards Questions - Acceptance (Rawleigh-2018)	The epistemic stance that can be taken by an epistemic agent towards a question is question acceptance.	2018

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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-2018-0003	Scientonomy	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	It was noted that "the whole point of adding questions to the ontology of epistemic elements was that we can legitimately speak of a question being accepted by a certain agent at a certain time".c1 The discussion also revealed a need to distinguish distinguish "a situation where no consensus exists from a situation where a consensus exists that a question is illegitimate".c2 In other words, "just as question acceptance, theory acceptance too seems to allow for three values: (clearly) accepted; (clearly) unaccepted; no consensus".c3 Thus, a new question was suggested concerning the binary character of epistemic stances: "are all epistemic stances binary, or do they allow for more than two values?"c4	1 November 2018

Current View

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Related Topics

This topic is a sub-topic of Epistemic Stances.

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

• Epistemic Stances Towards Theories
• Epistemic Stances Towards Methods

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