Group (Overgaard-2017)

This is a definition of Group that states "Two or more people who share any characteristic."

This definition of Group was formulated by Nicholas Overgaard in 2017.1 It is currently accepted by Scientonomy community as the best available definition of the term.

Scientonomic History

Acceptance Record

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Community	Accepted From	Acceptance Indicators	Still Accepted	Accepted Until	Rejection Indicators
Scientonomy	2 February 2018	The definition became accepted as a result of the acceptance of the respective suggested modification.	Yes

Suggestions To Accept

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Modification	Community	Date Suggested	Summary	Date Assessed	Verdict	Verdict Rationale
Sciento-2017-0012	Scientonomy	19 May 2017	Accept a new taxonomy for group and its two sub-types - accidental group, and community.	2 February 2018	Accepted	A consensus has emerged after a long discussion that the distinction and the respective definitions should be accepted. It was noted that "these formulations tend to be the starting point for so many of our discussions"c1 and that "despite all disagreements that this taxonomy causes, it is actually accepted by the community".c2 Yet, it was also indicated that whereas the definition of group as "two or more people that share a characteristic" is the best we have at the moment, it may be potentially necessary to pursue the idea of redefining it as "one or more people..." to allow for one-scientist communities.c3 Finally, while a question was raised whether there is any "value in defining accidental groups as something separate from groups",c4 it was eventually agreed that it is important to draw "a clear distinction between the two kinds of groups as accidental groups and communities".c5

Question Answered

Group (Overgaard-2017) is an attempt to answer the following question: What is group? How should it be defined?

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Description

In Overgaard's taxonomy, the term group refers to the most basic societal entity - a set of two or more people. As such, it is meant to play the role of the most abstract class which has two sub-classes - community and accidental group.1

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