Norm Employment (Barseghyan-2018)

This is a definition of Norm Employment that states "A norm is said to be employed if its requirements constitute the actual expectations of an epistemic agent."

This definition of Norm Employment was formulated by Hakob Barseghyan in 2018.1 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	1 September 2019	The definition became accepted as a result of the acceptance of the respective suggested modification.	Yes

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Modification	Community	Date Suggested	Summary	Date Assessed	Verdict	Verdict Rationale
Sciento-2018-0008	Scientonomy	8 October 2018	Accept the definition of norm employment.	1 September 2019	Accepted	The consensus on this modification emerged mostly off-line.c1 Importantly, it was also emphasized that its acceptance may have a ripple effect on other accepted definitions.c2 It was not clear whether "the acceptance of a new theory could be considered to implicitly grant permission to the editors to make small changes to old theories for the sake of maintaining consistency, without the need for explicit review and acceptance".c3 Thus, a new question concerning handling this ripple effect was accepted.

Question Answered

Norm Employment (Barseghyan-2018) is an attempt to answer the following question: What is norm employment? How should it be defined?

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Description

Norm employment explained by Barseghyan

This definition is meant to ensure that the notion of employment is applicable not only to methods but to norms of all types, as is the case in the ontology of epistemic elements suggested by Barseghyan in 2018. According to that ontology, the capacity of being employed can be ascribed not only to norms of theory evaluation (i.e. methods), but to norms of all types, including ethical norm and aesthetic norms.1

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