Law

How should we define the term law in the scientonomic context? How is law different from theory? Do we even need law as a separate concept?

Barseghyan loosely defines law as a proposition that describes any sufficiently general regularity in a given ontology. Thus, his laws of scientific change are merely the axioms from which other propositions of the theory follow.

At this stage, it is unclear what makes a proposition a law. A proper definition of law would help clarify this.

In the scientonomic context, this question was first formulated by Paul Patton in 2016. 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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In Barseghyan's The Laws of Scientific Change, the term law is used extensively, yet never formally defined.1

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Community	Accepted From	Acceptance Indicators	Still Accepted	Accepted Until	Rejection Indicators
Scientonomy	1 April 2016	This question was acknowledged as legitimate in the Scientonomy Seminar 2016.	Yes

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References

1. ^ ↑ Barseghyan, Hakob. (2015) The Laws of Scientific Change. Springer.

Contributors

Paul Patton (28.9%), Hakob Barseghyan (71.1%)