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Modification:Sciento-2018-0001 (view source)
Revision as of 15:12, 28 September 2018
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|Preamble=To properly discuss the question of the status of ''questions'' in the process of scientific change, we need a definition of ''question''. This suggested modification offers one such definition.
|To Accept=Question (Rawleigh-2018),
|Verdict=OpenAccepted|Date Assessed Year=2018|Date Assessed Month=September|Date Assessed Day=26
|Date Assessed Approximate=No
|Verdict Rationale=The consensus was reached as a result of in-person consultations with scientonomists mostly outside of the discussion page of this modification. It was agreed that as the only currently published definition of the term, Rawleigh's definition is to be accepted as the best available. An alternative definition of question as "A topic of scientific inquiry"<sup>[[Modification_talk:Sciento-2018-0001#comment-79|c1]]</sup> was presented as a potentially pursuit-worthy direction. However, it was eventually agreed that including "scientificity" into the definition of ''question'' conflates "the question of how a question should be defined" with "the question of what stances can be taken towards questions".<sup>[[Modification_talk:Sciento-2018-0001#comment-80|c2]]</sup> It does not distinguish "the propositional content of the element itself" and "its historical fate", for "scientificity or lack thereof doesn't change the propositional content of the question".<sup>[[Modification_talk:Sciento-2018-0001#comment-82|c3]]</sup>
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