|Question=What is '''epistemic agent'''? How should it be ''defined''?
|Topic Type=Definitional|Description=The notion of epistemic agent plays a central role in scientonomy. Since the term stands in an important relationship with the notions of epistemic element and epistemic stance, it is important to provide the term with a proper scientonomic definition.|Authors List=Hakob Barseghyan|Formulated Year=2018|Prehistory=|History=In the scientonomic context it the term was first used in [[Barseghyan (2018)|Barseghyan's ''Redrafting the Ontology of Scientific Change'']] where the term was not defined.[[CiteRef::Patton Barseghyan (20192018)|pp. 64-65]] Since The first scientonomic definition of the term stands was provided by [[Paul Patton]] in an important relationship with the notions of epistemic element [[Patton (2019)|''Epistemic Tools and epistemic stance, it is important to provide the term with a proper scientonomic definitionEpistemic Agents in Scientonomy'']].|Authors List=Paul [[CiteRef::Patton,|Formulated Year=(2019)]]|Related TopicsCurrent View=Epistemic Agents,
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|Accepted From Year=20192018|Accepted From Month=DecemberOctober|Accepted From Day=268
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|Acceptance Indicators=The publication of [[Patton Barseghyan (20192018)]] is and an indication of the acceptance of the questionterm.