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Assessment of Scientonomy (view source)
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Assessment of a theory of scientific change offers some additional challenges to those outlined above. One issue is that, to previous philosophers concerned with theory assessment, determining the mechanism for scientific change is essentially the same as explicating the method of science. One implication is the conflating of the descriptive and normative questions of assessment. In the ensuing confusion, methodology and TSC become indistinguishable.
|Related Topics=Indicators of Theory Acceptance, Indicators of Method Employment, Theory Acceptance, Possibility of Scientonomy, Possibility of Scientonomy - Argument from Bad Track Record, Possibility of Scientonomy - Argument from Changeability of Scientific Method, Possibility of Scientonomy - The Argument from Nothing Permanent, Possibility of Scientonomy - The Argument from Social Construction, Mechanism of Theory Acceptance,
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