Possibility of Scientonomy - Argument from Bad Track Record

How is scientonomy possible given the bad track record of previous attempts to create a general theory of scientific change?

In the scientonomic context, this question was first formulated by Hakob Barseghyan in 2015. The question is currently accepted as a legitimate topic for discussion by Scientonomy community.

In Scientonomy, the accepted answers to the question can be summarized as follows:

• The failures of past theories of scientific change do not imply the inevitability of future failure or that the enterprise in inherently unsound.
• Scientonomy is possible because the process of scientific change exhibits lawful general regularities.

Scientonomic History

Acceptance Record

Here is the complete acceptance record of this question (it includes all the instances when the question was accepted as a legitimate topic for discussion by a community):

Community	Accepted From	Acceptance Indicators	Still Accepted	Accepted Until	Rejection Indicators
Scientonomy	1 January 2016	This is when the community accepted its first answer to the question, Response to the Argument from Bad Track Record (Barseghyan-2015), which indicates that the question is itself legitimate.	Yes

All Theories

The following theories have attempted to answer this question:

Theory	Formulation	Formulated In
Response to the Argument from Bad Track Record (Barseghyan-2015)	The failures of past theories of scientific change do not imply the inevitability of future failure or that the enterprise in inherently unsound.	2015

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Accepted Theories

The following theories have been accepted as answers to this question:

Community	Theory	Accepted From	Accepted Until
Scientonomy	Response to the Argument from Bad Track Record (Barseghyan-2015)	1 January 2016

Suggested Modifications

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Current View

In Scientonomy, the accepted answers to the question are Response to the Argument from Bad Track Record (Barseghyan-2015) and Possibility of Scientonomy (Barseghyan-2015).

Response to the Argument from Bad Track Record (Barseghyan-2015) states: "The failures of past theories of scientific change do not imply the inevitability of future failure or that the enterprise in inherently unsound."

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Possibility of Scientonomy

Possibility of Scientonomy (Barseghyan-2015) states: "Scientonomy is possible because the process of scientific change exhibits lawful general regularities."

Related Topics

This question is a subquestion of Possibility of Scientonomy.