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|Description=Theory construction is the creative process by which theories are formulated by their creators. Theory appraisal is the process by which a scientific community determines which theories are suitable for acceptance into its mosaic. Questions of theory construction have been seen as primarily a matter for empirical disciplines like history, psychology, and sociology. Whereas the process of theory appraisal has also interested philosophers of science. It must be determined which of these questions scientonomy ought to make its main focus.
|Prehistory=In the early twentieth century [https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/reichenbach/ Hans Reichenbach] explicitly distinguished between the '''context of discovery''', and the '''context of justification'''. The first dealt with the temporal process by which new theories are discovered, invented, or constructed, and the second with the logical enterprise of appraising, testing, and securing them. [[CiteRef::Barseghyan (2015)|p. 22]]
Scope of Scientonomy - Construction and Appraisal (view source)
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|Question=Ought scientonomy view the process of scientific change be viewed from the perspective of theory construction or that of theory appraisal?
|Topic Type=Normative
|Parent Topic=Scope of Scientonomy
|Authors List=Hakob Barseghyan,
|Formulated Year=2015
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