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Compatibility Criteria (Fraser-Sarwar-2018) (view source)
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|Authors List=Ameer Sarwar, Patrick Fraser
|Formulated Year=2018
|Description=TODO: Add descriptionLike the demarcation and acceptance critera, the compatibility criteria are part of an epistemic community's employed method of the time. The community uses this criteria to determine whether two elements -- methods, theories, or questions -- are mutually compatible. This criteira can be used to determine the compatibility of elements present in the mosaic, as well as those outside of it. Indeed, scientists often think about whether a proposed theory is compatible with the theories actually accepted at the time. Moreover, the compatibility criteria is strictly between two elements, i.e., it tells the community whether any pair of elements is compatible. However, if element A is compatible with B, and B is compatible with C, then by transitivity A is compatible with C. As a result, a mosaic is a set of mutually compatible elements. In this way, the compatibility of the mosaic of a given community can be understood in terms of the compatibility of its constituent elements.
|Resource=Fraser and Sarwar (2018)
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