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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Scientonomy | 1 April 2016 | This question was acknowledged as legitimate in the Scientonomy Seminar 2016. | Yes |
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Currently, the term doesn't have a proper scientonomic definition.
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- ^ Barseghyan, Hakob. (2015) The Laws of Scientific Change. Springer.