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|Question=Can the epistemic stance of ''scientificity'' be taken towards ''questions''? Can there be unscientific or pseudoscientific questions?
|Topic Type=Descriptive
|Description=Scientific mosaics consist of theories, methods, and questions.[[CiteRef::Barseghyan (2015)]][[CiteRef::Sebastien (2016)]][[CiteRef::Rawleigh (2018)]] Sarwar and Fraser have argued that an independent stance, called ''scientificity'', can be taken towards ''theories'', namely that epistemic agents can consider a given theory to be scientific or unscientific independent of the agent's other stances of acceptance, use, and pursuit towards the same theory.[[CiteRef::Sarwar and Fraser (2018)]] The question, likewise, can be asked whether epistemic agents can take the stance of scientificity towards questions. Do they regard certain questions as scientific but do not pursue them? Are some questions explored by epistemic agenst agents even though they are not, at the time of exploration, considered scientific? Whether or not, and if so, how, the stance of scientificity is taken towards questions is an important scientonomic topic of inquiry, because they form an integral part of the scientific mosaic.
|Parent Topic=Epistemic Stances Towards Questions
|Authors List=Ameer Sarwar, Patrick Fraser,
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