Associations of Question

How is the class of question associated with other classes (and itself)? What aggregation, composition, or other association relations can exist between questions, as well as between a question and instances of other classes?

In the scientonomic context, this question was first formulated by William Rawleigh in 2018. The question is currently accepted as a legitimate topic for discussion by Scientonomy community. The following associations of Question are currently accepted in Scientonomy:

• A question can presuppose theories.
  
• A theory is an answer to a question.
  

Scientonomic History

Acceptance Record

Here is the complete acceptance record of this question (it includes all the instances when the question was accepted as a legitimate topic for discussion by a community):

Community	Accepted From	Acceptance Indicators	Still Accepted	Accepted Until	Rejection Indicators
Scientonomy	12 May 2018	Associations of Question became accepted by virtue of the acceptance of Question. This is when Rawleigh's The Status of Questions in the Ontology of Scientific Change that offered a definition of question was published. This is a good indication that the question of how question is to be defined is considered legitimate by the community.	Yes

All Theories

The following answers have been added to this encyclopedia:

Theory	Formulation	Formulated In
Theory Answers Question (Rawleigh-2018)	A theory is an answer to a question.	2018
Question Can Have Subquestions (Rawleigh-2018)	A question can have subquestions.	2018
Question Can Presuppose Theories (Barseghyan-Levesley-2019)	A question can presuppose theories.	2019

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Accepted Theories

The following theories have been accepted as answers to this question:

Community	Theory	Accepted From	Accepted Until
Scientonomy	Theory Answers Question (Rawleigh-2018)	26 September 2018
Scientonomy	Question Can Presuppose Theories (Barseghyan-Levesley-2019)	15 May 2019

Suggested Modifications

Here is a list of modifications concerning this topic:

Modification	Community	Date Suggested	Summary	Verdict	Verdict Rationale	Date Assessed
Sciento-2018-0006	Scientonomy	8 October 2018	Accept the new ontology of epistemic elements with, theories and questions are the two basic epistemic elements where and each theory is an attempt to answer a certain question, theories can be of three types – descriptive, normative, or definitions, and methods are a subtype of normative theory.	Accepted	Following a series of off-line discussions, a consensus emerged concerning this modification: it was agreed that the modification is to be accepted.c1 It was mentioned that most of the elements of this new ontology "has already been accepted by the scientonomic community".c2 It was also stressed that "the consensus has been manifested on several occasions, including the first scientonomy conference in May 2019 in Toronto, where several of the presenters treated this new ontology as accepted."c3 The fact that the consensus concerning this modification has been achieved primarily off-line, i.e. outside of the discussion pages of this encyclopedia suggests that the scientonomic "workflow must have a way of accommodating these discussions".c4	1 September 2019

Current View

In Scientonomy, the following associations of Question are currently accepted:

• A question can presuppose theories.
  
• A theory is an answer to a question.
  

Theory Answers Question (Rawleigh-2018) states: "A theory is an answer to a question."

Question Can Presuppose Theories (Barseghyan-Levesley-2019) states: "A question can presuppose theories."