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Theory Acceptance (Fraser-Sarwar-2018) (view source)
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|Formulation Text=An accepted theory is a scientific theory that is taken as the best available description or prescription of its object.
|Formulation File=Theory Acceptance (Fraser-Sarwar-2018).png
|Authors List=Patrick Fraser, Ameer Sarwar,Patrick Fraser
|Formulated Year=2018
|Description=TODO: Add descriptionThis definition of ''theory acceptance'' makes it explicit that any accepted theory is a ''scientific'' theory. It assumes that the question of whether a theory is accepted is meaningless without the theory being scientific. The point here is that no scientist would ask whether they should accept a theory without believing, if only implicitly, that the theory is indeed scientific. Since only scientific theories have the potential to become accepted, and because only some of these do in fact become accepted, it follows that all of the accepted theories are scientific.
|Resource=Fraser and Sarwar (2018)
|Prehistory=|History=|Page Status=StubNeeds Editing|Editor Notes=Some examples would be nice
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