Local Action Availability

What is local action availability? How should it be defined?

As local epistemic actions are said to be available to some epistemic agents, it is important to define what this availability amounts to.

In the scientonomic context, this term was first used by Joshua Allen in 2023. The term is currently accepted by Scientonomy community.

Scientonomic History

Acceptance Record of the Term

Here is the complete acceptance record of this term (it includes all the instances when the term was accepted as a part of a community's taxonomy):

Community	Accepted From	Acceptance Indicators	Still Accepted	Accepted Until	Rejection Indicators
Scientonomy	31 December 2023	This is when the first definition of the term was suggested, indicating that the term itself is accepted.	Yes

All Definitions

The following definitions of local action availability the term have been suggested:

Theory	Formulation	Formulated In
Local Action Availability (Allen-2023)	A local action A is said to be available to an epistemic agent iff that agent employs the norm “A is permissible/desirable”.	2023

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Accepted Definitions

According to our records, no definition of local action availability has ever been accepted.

Suggested Modifications

Here is a list of modifications concerning the definitions of local action availability:

Modification	Community	Date Suggested	Summary	Date Assessed	Verdict	Verdict Rationale
Sciento-2023-0007	Scientonomy	31 December 2023	Accept that the a local action A is said to be available to an epistemic agent iff that agent employs the norm “A is permissible/desirable”. Also accept the theorem of local action availability as a deductive consequence of this definition and the law of norm employment: a local epistemic action becomes available to an agent only when its permissibility/desirability is derivable from a non-empty subset of other elements of the agent’s mosaic.		Open	The modification can only become accepted once modification Sciento-2023-0006 becomes accepted.

Current Definition

At the moment, the term has no accepted definition in Scientonomy.

Ontology

Existence

In Scientonomy, there are currently no accepted claims concerning the existence of Local Action Availability.

Subtypes

In Scientonomy, there are currently no accepted subtypes of Local Action Availability.

Supertypes

In Scientonomy, there are currently no accepted supertypes of Local Action Availability.

Associations

In Scientonomy, there are currently no accepted associations of Local Action Availability.

Disjointness

In Scientonomy, no classes are currently accepted as disjoint with Local Action Availability.

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Dynamics

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