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Scope of Scientonomy - Construction and Appraisal (view source)
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|Question=''Ought '' the process of scientific change be viewed from the perspective of theory construction or that of theory appraisal?
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|Description=[[Theory]] construction is the generation, or creation of new theories. Theory appraisal is the process by which a theory is evaluated for acceptance into a [[Scientific Mosaic|scientific mosaic]]. While these two processes may be historically intertwined, they nonetheless represent two distinctive perspectives that one might take towards a theory. [[CiteRef::Barseghyan (2015) |pp. 21-30]] Ought scientonomy deal with the process of theory construction, of that of theory appraisal, or with both of them?