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== Prehistory ==
If the gist of the theory can be traced back to a pre-scientonomic philosopher or scientist, this is the section where the credits are to be given. For instance, the ''Prehistory'' section of [[The Third Law (Barseghyan-2015)]] describes how Kuhn, Laudan and other classics classic figures in the history and philosophy of science argued that our beliefs about the world shape our methods of theory evaluation. Similarly, the Prehistory section of [[The Zeroth Law (Harder-2015)]] outlines some of the major approaches to compatibility of elements within a belief system. Thus, classics of the philosophy of science, such as the writings of [[Karl Popper]], [[Thomas Kuhn]], [[Imre Lakatos]], [[Paul Feyerabend]] and [[Larry Laudan]] are a great resource for this section. Also check the references cited in respective scientonomic literature.
This section has the potential to be the largest and least bounded, due to the fact that many scientonomic theories could be traced began to the classics of philosophy of science. So it is important to keep this section reasonably concise and only include those ideas that are directly relevant to the theory.
This section of the article will be collapsed upon a reader’s entry to the webpageweb page, so they will have to click to expand this section if they want access to this pre-historical information on the subject.
{{Note}} There is an important difference between the prehistory of a ''theory'' vs. the prehistory of a ''topic'':
