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The Theory of Scientific Change (view source)
Revision as of 02:22, 3 August 2016
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====Contextual Appraisal====
[[Theory Acceptance|Theory assessment]] is an assessment of a proposed modification of the [[Scientific Mosaic|scientific mosaic]] by the [[Method|method]] employed at the time. By the [[The First Law|First Law]], a [[Theory|theory]] already in the mosaic is no longer appraised. By the [[The Second Law|Second Law]], it is only assessed when it first enters the mosaic[[CiteRef::Barseghyan (2015)|p. 185-196]].
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====Scientific Underdeterminism====
Scientific underdetermination is the thesis that the process of scientific change is not deterministic, and science could have evolved differently than it did. Hypothetically, two scientific communities developing separately could experience an entirely different sequence of successive states of their respective scientific mosaics. Even without the TSC, the implausibility of scientific determinism can be seen by considering the process of theory construction, which is outside the present scope of the TSC. Theory construction requires creative imagination, and the formulation of a given theory is therefore not inevitable. Still, underdetermination can also be inferred as a theorem from the axioms of the TSC [[CiteRef::Barseghyan (2015)|p. 196-198]].
=====Underdetermined method change=====
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