|Question=What does it mean to say that a theory is '''accepted'''? How should ''acceptance'' be ''defined''?
|Topic Type=Definitional
|Question=What does it mean to say that a theory is '''accepted'''? How should ''acceptance'' be ''defined''?
|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
|Authors List=Hakob Barseghyan,
|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]].