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|Description=Should a scientonomic theory merely explain how science changes through time, or should it prescribe how science ought to change, or both?
Scope of Scientonomy - Descriptive and Normative (view source)
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|Question=Ought a scientonomic theory be ''descriptive'' or ''normative''?
|Topic Type=Normative
|QuestionDescription=Should a scientonomic theory be ''descriptive'' merely explain how science changes through time, or ''normative''should it prescribe how science ought to change, or both?
|Parent Topic=Scope of Scientonomy
|Formulated Year=2015
|Prehistory=One of the reasons why the classic philosophy of science failed to accomplish its task was the vagueness of its position regarding this question. The theories of Popper, Kuhn, Lakatos, and early Laudan can all be considered either as descriptions of how science changes through time and/or prescriptions of how it ought to change.[[CiteRef::Barseghyan (2015)|pp. 12-21]]
|Author=Hakob Barseghyan,
