Scientific Mosaic (Rawleigh-2022)
This is a definition of Scientific Mosaic that states "A model of all epistemic elements accepted or employed by the epistemic agent."
This definition of Scientific Mosaic was formulated by William Rawleigh in 2022.1
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Modification | Community | Date Suggested | Summary | Verdict | Verdict Rationale | Date Assessed |
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Sciento-2022-0001 | Scientonomy | 28 February 2022 | Accept a new model-theoretic definition of scientific mosaic, according to which, a scientific mosaic is a model of all epistemic elements accepted or employed by the epistemic agent. | Open |
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Description
Rather than conceiving a scientific mosaic as a simple set-theoretic unity of epistemic elements, this definition is model-theoretic: it replaces the explicitly set-theoretic wording “set of all epistemic elements” with a semantic “model of all accepted elements”.1p. 91 The definition considers a scientific mosaic to be a model for interpreting all natural language sentences, whether those be observational, theoretical, or simply ordinary conversational sentences.
TODO: Add Rawleigh's discussion from his 2022.
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References
- a b Rawleigh, William. (2022) Reconceiving Scientific Mosaics: A New Formalization for Theoretical Scientonomy. In Barseghyan et al. (Eds.) (2022), 83-103.