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{{Definitional Topic
|Singular Capitalized=
|Plural Capitalized=Epistemic Agents
|Singular Lowercase=epistemic agent
|Plural Lowercase=epistemic agents
|Indefinite Article=an
|Question=What is '''epistemic agent'''? How should it be ''defined''?
|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::Barseghyan (2018)]] The first scientonomic definition of the term was provided by [[Paul Patton]] in [[Patton (2019)|pp. 64-65''Epistemic Tools and Epistemic Agents in Scientonomy'']] .[[CiteRef::Barseghyan Patton (20182019)]] 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 ListCurrent View=Paul Patton,|Formulated Year=2019|Related Topics=Epistemic Agents,
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|Community=Community:Scientonomy
|Accepted From Era=CE
|Accepted From Year=20192018|Accepted From Month=DecemberOctober|Accepted From Day=268
|Accepted From Approximate=No
|Acceptance Indicators=The publication of [[Patton Barseghyan (20192018)]] is and an indication of the acceptance of the term.
|Still Accepted=Yes
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|Accepted Until Approximate=No
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