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Discipline Acceptance (Patton-Al-Zayadi-2021) (view source)
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|Authors List=Cyrus Al-Zayadi, Paul Patton
|Formulated Year=2021
|Description=TODO: Paul add [[Discipline| disciplines]] like biology, physics, and astrology can be the subject of the [[Epistemic Stance|epistemic stances]] of [[Epistemic Agent|epistemic agents]]. For example, biology and physics are accepted by the scientific community of the modern world as disciplines, but astrology is rejected. In this definition, discipline acceptance is taken to be derivative of [[Theory Acceptance|theory acceptance]] and [[Question Acceptance|question acceptance]]. A discipline is defined by a description[[Delineating Theory|delineating theory]], which identifies its [[Core Question|core questions]]. For example, the question 'how do matter and energy behave?' is a core question of modern physics, and the question 'how do the positions of the planets at the time of one's birth influence one's life prospects?' is a core question of astrology. To accept a discipline, an epistemic agent must accept both the delineating theory that identifies a set of core questions constituting a discipline, and must accept those core questions themselves. The scientific community of the modern world accepts both the delineating theory that classifies 'how do matter and energy behave?' as a core question of physics, and accepts the question itself. The scientific community accepts the delineating theory that identifies 'how do the positions of the planets at the time of one's birth influence one's life prospects?' as a core question of astrology, but they do not accept the question itself, because they reject its supposition that there is such an influence. Thus, they reject the discipline of astrology.
|Resource=Patton and Al-Zayadi (2021)
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