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Scientific Underdeterminism theorem (Barseghyan-2015) (view source)
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{{Theory
|Title=Scientific Underdeterminism theorum
|Theory Type=Descriptive
|Formulation Text=Transitions from one state of the mosaic to another are not necessarily deterministic. Scientific change is not a strictly deterministic process.
|Formulation File=Scientific-underdeterminism-box-only.jpg
|Topic=Determinism vs Underdeterminism in Scientific Change
|Authors List=Hakob Barseghyan,
|Formulated Year=2015
|Description=====Scientific Underdeterminism====
Scientific underdetermination is the thesis that the process of [[Scientific Change|scientific change]] is not deterministic, and science could have evolved differently than it did. Hypothetically, two [[Scientific Community|scientific communities]] developing separately could experience an entirely different sequence of successive states of their respective [[Scientific Mosaic|scientific mosaics.]] Even without the TSC, the implausibility of scientific determinism can be seen by considering the process of [[Theory|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)|pp. 196-198]].
|Resource=Barseghyan (2015)
}}
{{Acceptance Record
|Community=Community:Scientonomy
|Accepted From Era=CE
|Accepted From Year=2016
|Accepted From Month=January
|Accepted From Day=1
|Accepted From Approximate=No
|Acceptance Indicators=The law became ''de facto'' accepted by the community at the time together with the whole [[Theory of Scientific Change|theory of scientific change]].
|Still Accepted=Yes
|Accepted Until Approximate=No
}}
|Title=Scientific Underdeterminism theorum
|Theory Type=Descriptive
|Formulation Text=Transitions from one state of the mosaic to another are not necessarily deterministic. Scientific change is not a strictly deterministic process.
|Formulation File=Scientific-underdeterminism-box-only.jpg
|Topic=Determinism vs Underdeterminism in Scientific Change
|Authors List=Hakob Barseghyan,
|Formulated Year=2015
|Description=====Scientific Underdeterminism====
Scientific underdetermination is the thesis that the process of [[Scientific Change|scientific change]] is not deterministic, and science could have evolved differently than it did. Hypothetically, two [[Scientific Community|scientific communities]] developing separately could experience an entirely different sequence of successive states of their respective [[Scientific Mosaic|scientific mosaics.]] Even without the TSC, the implausibility of scientific determinism can be seen by considering the process of [[Theory|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)|pp. 196-198]].
|Resource=Barseghyan (2015)
}}
{{Acceptance Record
|Community=Community:Scientonomy
|Accepted From Era=CE
|Accepted From Year=2016
|Accepted From Month=January
|Accepted From Day=1
|Accepted From Approximate=No
|Acceptance Indicators=The law became ''de facto'' accepted by the community at the time together with the whole [[Theory of Scientific Change|theory of scientific change]].
|Still Accepted=Yes
|Accepted Until Approximate=No
}}
