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• Modification:Sciento-2024-0002  + (Accept a list of necessary indicators of ''theory decay''.)

• Modification:Sciento-2016-0001  + (Accept a new formulation of the third law to make it clear that employed methods do not have to be deducible from ''all'' accepted theories and employed methods but only from ''some''.)
• Modification:Sciento-2022-0001  + (Accept a new model-theoretic definition of ''scientific mosaic'', according to which, a scientific mosaic is a model of all epistemic elements accepted or employed by the epistemic agent.)
• Modification:Sciento-2017-0002  + (Accept a new ontology of scientific change where the two fundamental elements are theories - both descriptive and normative - and methods.)
• Modification:Sciento-2017-0012  + (Accept a new taxonomy for ''group'' and its two sub-types - ''accidental group'', and ''community''.)
• Modification:Sciento-2016-0002  + (Accept a new taxonomy for ''theory'', ''normative theory'', ''descriptive theory'' to reintroduce normative propositions (such as those of ethics or methodology) to the scientific mosaic.)
• Modification:Sciento-2018-0016  + (Accept compatibility as a distinct epistemic stance that can be taken towards epistemic elements of all types. Also accept that compatibility is binary, reflexive, and symmetric. Transitivity of compatibility holds only within mosaics, not in general.)
• Modification:Sciento-2017-0001  + (Accept new definitions for ''theory'', ''normative theory'', and ''descriptive theory''. Also, modify the definition of ''methodology'' to reflect these changes.)
• Modification:Sciento-2021-0006  + (Accept new definitions of ''subquestion'', ''core question'', ''core theory'', ''discipline'', ''delineating theory'', ''subdiscipline'', and ''discipline acceptance''.)
• Modification:Sciento-2023-0002  + (Accept new formulations of the first law f … Accept new formulations of the first law for theories, norms, and questions that are in tune with the formulation of the first law. Also accept new formulations of the respective rejection theorems - theory rejection, norm rejection, and question rejection.n, norm rejection, and question rejection.)
• Modification:Sciento-2019-0008  + (Accept that a countdown mechanism is to be introduced, where a modification is accepted by default if there are no objections within a 90-day period following its publication.)
• Modification:Sciento-2019-0004  + (Accept that an annual book prize is to be offered for extensive participation on the encyclopedia. The winner(s) are to be decided by the encyclopedia editors.)
• Modification:Sciento-2017-0013  + (Accept that communities can consist of other communities, i.e. that there is such a thing as a ''sub-community''.)
• Modification:Sciento-2024-0003  + (Accept that element decay is a non-scientonomic phenomenon.)
• Modification:Sciento-2023-0006  + (Accept that epistemic actions can be local … Accept that epistemic actions can be local or global. Also accept the definition of ''global epistemic action'' as an epistemic action that is available to all epistemic agents trans-historically and universally and the definition of ''local epistemic action'' as an epistemic action that is not available trans-historically to all epistemic agents, but is specific to some time periods or some agents.cific to some time periods or some agents.)
• Modification:Sciento-2018-0010  + (Accept that epistemic stances of all types can be taken explicitly and/or implicitly and that epistemic elements of all types can be explicit and/or implicit.)
• Modification:Sciento-2017-0003  + (Accept that licenses to teach [''ʾijāzāt'' … Accept that licenses to teach [''ʾijāzāt''] are reliable indicators of which texts were considered authoritative in the Medieval Arabic scientific mosaic (MASM) in c. 750-1258 CE in the Abbasid caliphate. Thus, a proposition can be said to be accepted in MASM if the evidence of the licenses to teach [''ʾijāzāt''] indicates so.enses to teach [''ʾijāzāt''] indicates so.)
• Modification:Sciento-2023-0004  + (Accept that noun-adjective pairs within the RSC can be indicative of communal theory acceptance.)
• Modification:Sciento-2018-0012  + (Accept that propositional technological knowledge – i.e. technological questions, theories, and methods – can be part of a mosaic.)
• Modification:Sciento-2019-0005  + (Accept that star-ratings are to be introduced for commentators who comment on suggested modifications on the encyclopedia.)
• Modification:Sciento-2023-0007  + (Accept that the a local action ''A'' is sa … Accept that the a local action ''A'' is said to be available to an epistemic agent ''iff'' that agent employs the norm “''A'' is permissible/desirable”. Also accept the theorem of local action availability as a deductive consequence of this definition and the law of norm employment: a local epistemic action becomes available to an agent only when its permissibility/desirability is derivable from a non-empty subset of other elements of the agent’s mosaic.t of other elements of the agent’s mosaic.)
• Modification:Sciento-2019-0003  + (Accept that the commentators of suggested … Accept that the commentators of suggested modifications are allowed to suggest reformulations of the original formulations. Also accept that, by default, the new formulation should bear the original author’s name, unless the author decides to give credit to those who significantly contributed to the new reformulation. This should be decided collegially by the author, the commentators, and the editors on a case-by-case basis., and the editors on a case-by-case basis.)
• Modification:Sciento-2019-0002  + (Accept that the discussions concerning a s … Accept that the discussions concerning a suggested modification are to be published once a communal verdict is available. The discussions are to be published in the journal as special commentary articles co-authored by all participants of the discussion or in special edited collections.scussion or in special edited collections.)
• Modification:Sciento-2019-0006  + (Accept that the encyclopedia editors are t … Accept that the encyclopedia editors are to be granted official housekeeping rights to handle the ripple effects. Also accept that if the additional required changes are implicit in the suggested modification, the editors should create and alter encyclopedia pages to ensure that the accepted body of scientonomic knowledge is properly documented; if it is conceivable to accept the modification without accepting the ripple effect change in question, the editors should register these changes as new suggested modifications so that the community can discuss and evaluate them in an orderly fashion.s and evaluate them in an orderly fashion.)
• Modification:Sciento-2018-0003  + (Accept that the epistemic stance that can … Accept that the epistemic stance that can be taken by an epistemic agent towards a question is ''question acceptance'' (the opposite is ''unacceptance''), where ''question acceptance'' is defined as "a question is said to be accepted if it is taken as a legitimate topic of inquiry".s taken as a legitimate topic of inquiry".)
• Modification:Sciento-2023-0003  + (Accept that the first law and its corollaries are tautologies. Also accept that the rejection theorems are tautologies.)
• Modification:Sciento-2019-0001  + (Accept that the goal of peer-reviews in the scientonomic workflow is evaluation for ''pursuitworthiness'' rather than ''acceptability''.)
• Modification:Sciento-2021-0004  + (Accept that the handling of scientific error, as defined by Machado-Marques and Patton, is compatible with ''the theory rejection theorem''.)
• Modification:Sciento-2017-0005  + (Accept that the new second law is not a tautology.)
• Modification:Sciento-2019-0012  + (Accept that the phenomenological claims of classical physics are still accepted as the best available descriptions of their respective observable phenomena.)
• Modification:Sciento-2021-0005  + (Accept that the phenomenon of ''element decay'' exists as a ''non-scientonomic'' phenomenon.)
• Modification:Sciento-2024-0001  + (Accept that the phenomenon of ''element decay'' exists.)
• Modification:Sciento-2019-0018  + (Accept that the relationship of ''tool rel … Accept that the relationship of ''tool reliance'' can obtain between epistemic agents and epistemic tools. Also accept the definition of tool reliance, which states that an epistemic agent is said to rely on an epistemic tool when there is a procedure through which the tool can provide an acceptable source of knowledge for answering some question under the employed method of that agent.n under the employed method of that agent.)
• Modification:Sciento-2019-0007  + (Accept that the verdict on suggested modif … Accept that the verdict on suggested modifications is to be decided by a communal vote that will follow the discussion period. Have a communal discussion and decide as to what percentage of votes it should take for a modification to be accepted - a simple majority (50% +1), or supermajority of three fifths (60%), two thirds (67%), or three quarters (75%). Also discuss to decide as to how long the discussion period and the voting period should be.on period and the voting period should be.)
• Modification:Sciento-2019-0015  + (Accept that there are two types of epistemic agents – individual and communal. Also accept the question of applicability of the laws of scientific change to individuals as a legitimate topic of scientonomic inquiry.)
• Modification:Sciento-2018-0020  + (Accept the ''demarcation-acceptance synchronism'' theorem.)
• Modification:Sciento-2018-0014  + (Accept the ''law of theory demarcation'' as a new scientonomic axiom. Also accept questions concerning indicators of scientificity as legitimate topics of scientonomic inquiry.)
• Modification:Sciento-2018-0015  + (Accept the definition of ''compatibility'', as the ability of two elements to coexist in the same mosaic. Also replace the zeroth law with the ''compatibility corollary''.)
• Modification:Sciento-2018-0007  + (Accept the definition of ''definition'' as a statement of the meaning of a term.)
• Modification:Sciento-2023-0005  + (Accept the definition of ''epistemic action'' as an action of an epistemic agent that involves an epistemic element.)
• Modification:Sciento-2019-0016  + (Accept the definition of ''epistemic tool' … Accept the definition of ''epistemic tool'', stating that a physical object or system is an epistemic tool for an epistemic agent, when there is a procedure by which the tool can provide an acceptable source of knowledge for answering some question under the employed method of that agent.n under the employed method of that agent.)
• Modification:Sciento-2021-0003  + (Accept the definition of ''error'', stating that an epistemic agent is said to commit an error if the agent accepts a theory that should not have been accepted given that agent’s employed method.)
• Modification:Sciento-2018-0008  + (Accept the definition of ''norm employment''.)
• Modification:Sciento-2018-0001  + (Accept the definition of ''question'' as a topic of inquiry.)
• Modification:Sciento-2019-0009  + (Accept the definition of implication as a logical transition from one theory to another.)
• Modification:Sciento-2019-0017  + (Accept the definitions of ''authority delegation'', and its subtypes, that generalize the currently accepted definitions to apply to all epistemic agents, rather than only communities.)
• Modification:Sciento-2021-0001  + (Accept the definitions of ''logical presupposition'' and ''epistemic presupposition''.)