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|Question=Should a scientonomic theory be ''descriptive'' or ''normative''?
Scope of Scientonomy - Descriptive and Normative (view source)
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|Question=Should a scientonomic theory be ''descriptive'' or ''normative''?
|Topic Type=Normative
|Parent Topic=Scope of Scientonomy
|Formulated Year=2015
|Description=Should a scientonomic theory merely explain how science changes through time, or should it prescribe how science ought to change, or both?
|Formulated YearPrehistory=One of the reasons why the classic philosophy of science failed to accomplish its task was the vagueness of its position regarding this question. The theories of Popper, Kuhn, Lakatos, and early Laudan can all be considered either as descriptions of how science changes through time and/or prescriptions of how it ought to change.[[CiteRef::Barseghyan (2015)|pp. 12-21]]
|Author=Hakob Barseghyan,
}}{{Acceptance Record|PrehistoryCommunity=One of the reasons why the classic philosophy of science failed to accomplish its task was the vagueness of its position regarding this question. The theories of Popper, Kuhn, Lakatos, and early Laudan can all be considered either as descriptions of how science changes through time and/or prescriptions of how it ought to change.[[CiteRefCommunity::Barseghyan (2015)Scientonomy|Accepted From Era=CE|Accepted From Year=2016|Accepted From Month=January|Accepted From Day=1|Accepted From Approximate=Yes|Still Accepted=Yes|pp. 12-21]]Accepted Until Approximate=No
}}
