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|Question=What does it mean to say that a theory is '''accepted'''? How should ''acceptance'' be ''defined''?
|Authors List=Hakob Barseghyan,
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|Question=What does it mean to say that a theory is '''accepted'''? How should ''acceptance'' be ''defined''?
|Topic Type=Definitional
|Description=One of the tasks of scientonomy is to explain transitions from one ''accepted'' theory to the next. Therefore, it is important to have a clear-cut notion of ''acceptance''.
|Authors List=Hakob Barseghyan,
|Formulated Year=2015
|Prehistory=Prehistory here
|History=Prior to 2016, the definition of "[[Theory|theory]]" included only [[Theory#Descriptive and Normative|descriptive]] theories. As a result, "acceptance" only concerned the best available descriptions:
This definition allows for both descriptive and normative propositions to be accepted into a [[Scientific Mosaic|mosaic]].
|Related Topics=Theory, Scientific Mosaic
}}
{{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
|Still Accepted=Yes
|Accepted Until Approximate=No
}}
