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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 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 the ability of a theory, to the conception of science as simply a tool, to claims that a solution is impossible as truth is relative. Scientonomy is a [[Scope of 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]]. By itself, it can make no normative claims about scientific whether or not these changes constitute 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 science answer the question of whether or not science progresses, and if so how and in what sense.