Changes

|Date Suggested Day=12

|Date Suggested Approximate=No

|Resource=Rawleigh (2018)

|Preamble=The currently accepted scientonomic ontology includes two classes of epistemic elements – theories and methods. However, the ontology underlying ''the Encyclopedia of Scientonomy'' includes questions/topics as a basic element of its semantic structure. Ideally there should be no discrepancy between the accepted ontology of theoretical scientonomy and that of the Encyclopedia. This modification suggests including questions in the ontology of scientific change as a distinct class of epistemic elements.

|Automatic=No

|Verdict=Accepted

|Date Assessed Approximate=No

|Verdict Rationale=Following several focused discussions - both in-person and on the discussion page of this modification - it was finally decided that the modification is to be accepted. Three important clarifications were made. First, it was noted that Rawleigh only shows that questions cannot be reduced either to methods or to theories, but it is still conceivable "that questions may be functions of both theories and methods simultaneously".^{[[Modification_talk:Sciento-2018-0002#comment-73|c1]]} Second, it was decided that accepting the modification is still warranted, since currently we don't have any idea how questions could be reduced to a conjunction of theories ''and'' methods.^{[[Modification_talk:Sciento-2018-0002#comment-85|c2]]} Third, scientonomists are actively encouraged to pursue the question of possibility of reducing questions to a conjunction of theories and methods.^{[[Modification_talk:Sciento-2018-0002#comment-85|c3]]}

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