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Theory Acceptance (Fraser-Sarwar-2018) (view source)
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|Formulation Text=An accepted theory is a scientific theory that is taken as the best available description or prescription of its object.
|Formulation File=Theory Acceptance (Fraser-Sarwar-2018).png
|Authors List=Patrick Fraser, Ameer Sarwar,Patrick Fraser
|Formulated Year=2018
|Description=TODO: Add descriptionThis definition of theory acceptance makes explicit that any accepted theory is a scientific theory. This is because the question of whether some theory is accepted is meaningless without it being scientific, i.e., no scientist would ask whether they should accept a theory without believing, if only implicitly, that the contender theory is indeed scientific. Since only scientific theories have the potential to become accepted, and because only some of these do in fact become accepted, it follows that all of the accepted theories are scientific. To be clear, the scientific status of the theory depends on the demarcation criteria of the time, and its acceptability depends on the acceptance criteria. The definition of theory acceptance presupposes that these processes have already taken place. As such, it defines theory acceptance as those scientific theories that provide the best descriptions or prescriptions of their object of study from the prespective of the relevant epistemic community.
|Resource=Fraser and Sarwar (2018)
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