Scientific Change

What is scientific change? How should it be defined?

The field of scientonomy is understood as a scientific study of scientific change. Thus, defining the term scientific change is an important task.

In the scientonomic context, this term was first used by Hakob Barseghyan in 2015. The term is currently accepted by Scientonomy community.

In Scientonomy, the accepted definition of the term is:

• Any change in the scientific mosaic, i.e. a transition from one accepted theory to another or from one employed method to another.

Scientonomic History

The original definition of the term was proposed by Barseghyan in 2015.1

Acceptance Record

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	1 January 2016	This is when the community accepted its first definition of the term, Scientific Change (Barseghyan-2015), which indicates that the question is itself considered legitimate.	Yes

All Theories

The following definitions of the term have been suggested:

Theory	Formulation	Formulated In
Scientific Change (Barseghyan-2015)	Any change in the scientific mosaic, i.e. a transition from one accepted theory to another or from one employed method to another.	2015

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Accepted Theories

The following definitions of the term have been accepted:

Community	Theory	Accepted From	Accepted Until
Scientonomy	Scientific Change (Barseghyan-2015)	1 January 2016

Suggested Modifications

According to our records, there have been no suggested modifications on this term.

Current Definition

Currently, scientific change denotes to any change in a scientific mosaic, be that a transition from one accepted theory to another or from one employed method to another.1p.6

In Scientonomy, the accepted definition of the term is Scientific Change (Barseghyan-2015).

Scientific Change (Barseghyan-2015) states: "Any change in the scientific mosaic, i.e. a transition from one accepted theory to another or from one employed method to another."

The scientific mosaic is in a process of perpetual change. Most of the theories that we accept nowadays didn’t even exist two or three hundred years ago. Similarly, at least some of the methods that we employ in theory assessment nowadays have nothing to do with the methods employed in the 17th century. Thus, it is safe to say that the process of scientific change involves both theories and methods.2p.9 Changes in the scientific mosaic can be viewed as a series of successive frames, where each frame represents a state of that mosaic at a given point of time. Obviously, such a frame would include all accepted theories and all employed methods of the time. 2p. 9

Ontology

Existence

There is currently no accepted view concerning the existence of scientific changes.

Disjointness

No classes are currently accepted as being disjoint with this class.

Subtypes

No classes are currently accepted as subtypes of a scientific change.

Supertypes

No classes are currently accepted as supertypes of a scientific change.

Associations

No associations of a scientific change are currently accepted.

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Dynamics

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Related Topics

This term is also related to the following topic(s):

• Scientific Mosaic
• Theory
• Method