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|Authors List=William Rawleigh
|Resource=Rawleigh (2018)
|Preamble=The currently accepted scientonomic ontology includes two classes of epistemic elements – [[Theory|theories]] and [[Method|methods]]. However, the ontology underlying ''the Encyclopedia of Scientonomy'' includes [[Question|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. The addition of questions to the ontology of epistemic elements is intended to bring the accepted scientonomic ontology more closely in line with (a) actual scientific practice, in which questions seem to be distinct elements, and (b) the ontology implicit in the [[Main Page|Encyclopedia of Scientonomy]], where every theory is an answer to a certain question.
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|To Accept=Question Is a Subtype of Epistemic Element (Rawleigh-2018)

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