The Necessity of Language in Community

Is a shared language, or propositional code, presupposed by the existence of an epistemic community?

This question seeks to uncover what level of communication is presupposed by the existence of an epistemic community, and the role it plays in the process of scientific change.

In the scientonomic context, this question was first formulated by Calahan Janik-Jones, Brendan Wu, Karl Loszak and Paul Patton in 2017. The question is currently accepted as a legitimate topic for discussion by Scientonomy community. At the moment, the question has no accepted answer in Scientonomy.

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Community	Accepted From	Acceptance Indicators	Still Accepted	Accepted Until	Rejection Indicators
Scientonomy	24 March 2017	This question was acknowledged as legitimate in the Scientonomy Seminar 2017.	Yes

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• The Necessity of Intercommunication for Community: If two independent communities undergo similar changes which result in identical mosaics, are these communities still considered as distinct, or are they a single community? The topic has no accepted answer in Scientonomy.

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• The Necessity of Intercommunication for Community

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Hakob Barseghyan (44.3%), Jacob MacKinnon (55.7%)