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Accept a new formulation of the third law to make it clear that employed methods do not have to be deducible from ''all'' accepted theories and employed methods but only from ''some''. +
Accept a new taxonomy for ''theory'', ''normative theory'', ''descriptive theory'' to reintroduce normative propositions (such as those of ethics or methodology) to the scientific mosaic. +
Accept the notion of ''authority delegation''. +
Provided that the notion of ''authority delegation'' is accepted, accept the notions of ''mutual authority delegation'' and ''one-sided authority delegation'' as subtypes of authority delegation. +
Accept new definitions for ''theory'', ''normative theory'', and ''descriptive theory''. Also, modify the definition of ''methodology'' to reflect these changes. +
Accept a new ontology of scientific change where the two fundamental elements are theories - both descriptive and normative - and methods. +
Accept that licenses to teach [''ʾijāzāt''] are reliable indicators of which texts were considered authoritative in the Medieval Arabic scientific mosaic (MASM) in c. 750-1258 CE in the Abbasid caliphate. Thus, a proposition can be said to be accepted in MASM if the evidence of the licenses to teach [''ʾijāzāt''] indicates so. +
Accept [[The Second Law (Patton-Overgaard-Barseghyan-2017)|the reformulation of the second law]] which explicitly links theory assessment outcomes with theory acceptance/unacceptance. To that end, accept three new definitions for theory assessment outcomes (''satisfied'', ''not satisfied'', and ''inconclusive'') as well as the new ontology of theory assessment outcomes, and accept the new definition of ''employed method''. +
Accept that the new second law is not a tautology. +
Accept the following set of inferences of theory assessment outcomes from the acceptance or unacceptance of a single contender and two contenders. +
Accept the definitions of the following subtypes of ''authority delegation'': ''singular authority delegation'', ''multiple authority delegation'', ''hierarchical authority delegation'', and ''non-hierarchical authority delegation''. +
Accept the following reconstruction of the contemporary authority delegation structure in the art market regarding the works of Monet: A work claimed to be by Monet is authentic if it is considered authentic by the Wildenstein Institute. +
Accept the following reconstruction of the contemporary authority delegation structure in the art market regarding the works of Picasso: a work claimed to be by Picasso is authentic if it is has been certified as authentic by both Maya Widmaier-Picasso and Claude Ruiz-Picasso. +
Accept the following reconstruction of the authority delegation structure in the art market regarding the works of Modigliani between 1997 and 2015: a work claimed to be by Modigliani is authentic iff (1) it is in the Ceroni catalogue raisonné or (2) if it is not in catalogue and has been certified as authentic by Marc Restellini. +
Accept the following reconstruction of the contemporary authority delegation structure in the art market regarding the works of Renoir: a work claimed to be by Renoir is authentic iff (1) it has been certified as authentic by the Wildenstein institute or (2) it has not been dismissed by the Wildenstein institute and it is included in the Bernheim-Jeune catalogue. +
Accept a new taxonomy for ''group'' and its two sub-types - ''accidental group'', and ''community''. +
Accept that communities can consist of other communities, i.e. that there is such a thing as a ''sub-community''. +
Provided that the definition of ''community'' is accepted, accept new definitions of ''epistemic community'' and ''non-epistemic community'' as sub-types of ''community''. +
Provided that the distinction between epistemic and non-epistemic communities is accepted, accept that a non-epistemic community can consist of epistemic communities. +
Accept the definition of ''question'' as a topic of inquiry. +
