Modification talk:Sciento-2017-0006

Provide your comments regarding the suggested modification here. At minimum you need to indicate whether you think the modification is acceptable, why "yes" or why "no". The key question here is not whether the modification is flawless - no modification ever is. The key question is whether the modification, if accepted, will provide an overall improvement to our communal knowledge.

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Tessa Ng

31 months ago

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The proposed modification seeks to answer the question of what may be inferred about a theory’s assessment outcome based on whether the theory was accepted, unaccepted, or the cause of a mosaic split. In light of the acceptance of modification 2017-0004 (reformulation of the second law), this suggested modification may be interpreted as a reasonable extension/ application of its predecessor.

The suggested modification proposes an interesting and fruitful guide for investigating theory assessment outcomes from a scientonomic point of view. The visuals provided are simple and convey possible inferences clearly. A natural question that arises is whether the inference guide can be extended for complex cases with more than two contending theories. Similarly, one may ask in which cases the suggested modification would not hold. For instance, episodes in which a theory was accepted even when it did not satisfy the assessment criteria of a scientific community (eg. Nazi racial science) and many other practices undertaken by authoritarian regimes. Of course, in such cases it is arguable that the theories were not truly accepted and were only accepted on the surface, but such a nuance should be noted and not overlooked.

All in all, the suggested modification provides a useful tool for inferring theory assessment outcomes and seems to be a natural extension of the reformulated second law. The idea of being able to infer assessment outcomes based on a theory’s acceptance/ unacceptance is interesting and has potential to encourage further work on the subject, especially into the case of mosaic splits, which we can not as confidently make inferences about. Hence, my verdict is to accept the suggested modification.

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