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The Status of Holism and Ripple Effect (view source)
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For example, suppose a community accepts a theory T<sub>1</sub> which describes the set of planets as Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn, and theory P holds that all planets revolve in ellipses. Now suppose a theory T<sub>2</sub>, describing the set of planets as that of T<sub>1</sub> and also including Neptune, replaces T<sub>1</sub>. While it is clear that theory T has undergone a scientific change, can the same be said of theory P? Would considering the change in reference of theory P to be a scientific change as described by the [[Theory Rejection theorem (Barseghyan-2015)|Theory Rejection Theorem]] be a violation of the laws of scientific change?
|Parent Topic=Mechanism of Theory AcceptanceScientific Change
|Authors List=Paul Patton, Hakob Barseghyan, Liron Cohen, Calahan Janik-Jones,
|Formulated Year=2018
