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|Description=The problem of scientific progress is the question of whether science can be truly said to make progress. Can one theory truly be taken as better than another? If so, how is this determined? Answers formulated by philosophers of science range from the use of predictive power as an arbiter of theory ability, to the conception of science as simply a tool, and to claims that a solution is impossible as truth is relative. The scientonomic theory Scientonomy is a [[Scope of scientific Scientonomy - Descriptive (Barseghyan-2015)|descriptive empirical science]]. It maintains that theories change over time by a fixed [[The Theory of Scientific Change|mechanism of scientific change and makes ]]. By itself, it can make no normative claims about scientific progress[CiteRef: Barseghyan (2015) pp. 12-21][CiteRef: Barseghyan and Shaw (2019)]. The question at issue is whether the descriptive laws unearthed by scientonomists can help normative philosophers of scientific change can contribute to solving science answer the problem question of scientific progresswhether or not science progresses, and if so how and it what sense.